Re: Whatsrunning

de Ron May 01/20/2007 08:15

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:35:52 -0800, John Corliss
<jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote:

> In the latest issue of PC Magazine, Bill Machrone devoted his column to
> describing "WhatsRunning.net":
>
> http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx
>
> The program is free for non-commercial use and looks like a pretty good one:
>
> "What's Running is a product that gives you an inside look into your
> Windows 2000/XP/2003 system.
>
> Explore processes, services, modules, IP-connections, drivers and much
> more through a simple to use application. Find out important information
> such as what modules are involved in a specific process.
>
> Control your system by starting and stopping services and processes.
> Configure your startup programs easily."
>
> Has anybody used this program?

Just test driving it now. Didn't try to "phone home" on me. First
impression is that, while the program is similar to Process Explorer,
it's not a replacement, e.g. I can't find a "properties" equivalent,
which is something I use heavily in Process Explorer. OTOH, What's
Running's tabbed interface seems to offer a better way of viewing more
information than can be done with Process Explorer. Also, the
"Snapshot/Compare" function in What's Running is reason enough alone
to make the program a keeper. For me at least, Process Explorer and
What's Running are complimentary to one another, using one or the
other depending on the task at hand. Excellent find! Thanks, John.

--
Ron M.