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Process Explorer is a Windows tool written by Mark Russinovich, used for examining currently running processes and their open handles

Process Explorer is a Windows tool written by Mark Russinovich, used for examining currently running processes and their open handles.

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Finding current directory during Visual Studio debugging session?

How can I find the current directory for a .NET application running under the Visual Studio debugger? Update 1. To be clear: I don't want to change the code or get information in the program itself - I just want to get information about the…
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Svchost: How to make it run only one module per instance of svchost.exe? How to get extended process info?

I have an issue with one of my applications. I run the application, everything is okay. When I close this application, I notice that one of the "svchost" processes in the system takes up about 95-100% of the CPU and I have to figure out what is…
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Process Explorer: What does the Commit History graph show?

In the Memory graph available in Process Explorer, the top graph shows Commit History. What does this actually indicate at the OS level? To experiment if this is the memory allocated on the heap by a process, I wrote a small program that…
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Interpreting GPU information from Process Explorer

I am trying to hunt down a possible memory leak in my Sharpdx / DirectX application. I am getting the following information from process explorer which I do not know how to interpret. What is Dedicated GPU Memory? What is System GPU Memory? What…
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How to make the feature 'Replace Task Manager' of Process Explorer?

Process Explorer has a nice feature Replace Task Manager I just wondered how Mark Russinovich implements this. What trick is used for implementing this?
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Does Process Explorer support API or call from Console Command?

Suppose I've installed multiple version of a software, some of the DLLs are register as COM. For example: .../version1/Application.exe normal.dll comObject.dll -- register as COM to use .../version2/Application.exe …
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Debugging RtlUserThreadStart in Process Explorer

I have a multi-threaded wpf application built on 3.5. When I look at the running threads through Process Explorer I see 8 threads all with the same start address, ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart and all eight have a CPU value from 3-6+ and have a high…
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Task Manager disagrees with Process Explorer?

I'm trying to track down a memory leak in my .NET app. Windows Task Manager reports that the memory usage stays constant, while Process Explorer reports that the memory usage is raising. In Task Manager, I'm looking in the only memory column,…
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x64 .NET compilation / Process Explorer oddity

Apologies if any of what I'm about to say makes no sense or overlooks something obvious - my knowledge of CLR internals is spotty. If I understand correctly, then if I just build a solution for 'AnyCPU' in VS2K5 (or point MSBuild at that .sln file…
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Get Command Line of a java process

As we all know all java processes appear in task manager as javaw.exe. I want to get command line of all such java processes. A tool called ProcessExplorer does the same thing but it displays all that in a GUI and i am looking at a programming…
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how to find out what is causing I/O in my application?

Good afternoon, I inherited some C# code from years ago. I have refactored it a bit to be asynchronous. Evaluating the impact of my changes on the performance of the CPU, I used Process Explorer to watch, roughly, what my app was doing. To my…
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Why is Git clean -fdx blocked by a Process that Process Explorer can't find?

I'm using git clean -fdx on my repo using Git 2.8.2.windows.1. My understanding is that the -f flag should be forcing removal. At times I - unexpectedly - get this linking issue (that has a solution). My question is not why this happens - I know…
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What's the attribute/property/field of a System.Threading.Thread which corresponds with Process Explorer's TID?

I'm currently trying to see what's happening with a thread, I've created in a C# application. The thread is of type System.Threading.Thread and is embedded inside an internal object (and I have access to the thread inside that object while…
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Sysinternals Handle.exe is not detecting process handles that Process explorer can view

When i run Sysinternal Process Explorer i can see when cheatengine is attached to another process and i cant do the same thing with Handle.exe (Same company command line tool). I have tried each 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Handle.exe . It doesnt…
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Delphi ASLR and Process Explorer Results

Testing ALSR in Delphi with a blank VCL project on Windows 10. In the VCL Project File added: {$SETPEOPTFLAGS $140} //Set ASLR and DEP When “Link with runtime packages” is false, Process Explorer lists Address Space Layout Randomization as “Enabled…
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