How do I tell whats running?

[heebeegeetee]

I'm working away and my pc is clicking away like buggery, suggesting that some sort of activity is going on, but I don't know what.

I seem to recall I could type a word or phrase into the Run box to see what processes are running, but can't remember what.

Any ideas, guys?

[bigdods]

win XP ctrl-alt-del pops up the task manager. Select the 'applications' tab to see what programs are running. Select the 'processes' tab to see whats taking up your processor time - hint - click twice on the CPU column title to sort the processes into CPU utilisation order.

[leosayer]

and then use this site to find out what the processes are for eg. 'svchost.exe'

www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/system/

[shocker-z]

if your on bout using run box then type cmd then type process


Liam

[malman]

Or use this which has a handy right click to google feature amongst other things

www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx

[heebeegeetee]

Thanks guys. It turned out it was the AVG antivirus programme having a scan for no reason that I was aware of.

Cheers guys.

[ThePassenger]

heebeegeetee said:

Thanks guys. It turned out it was the AVG antivirus programme having a scan for no reason that I was aware of.

Cheers guys.

AVG schedules itself to do one either on boot or at about 13:00ish every day. Pull up AVG's control panel and either disable or jiggle the shedule to suit your needs.