{"id":5936,"date":"2008-07-31T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T10:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/learn-more-about-active-processes-on-your-system\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:28:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:28:45","slug":"learn-more-about-active-processes-on-your-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/learn-more-about-active-processes-on-your-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn more about active processes on your system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/taskman.jpg\" alt=\"ProcessQuickLink2\" align=\"right\" \/>Advanced users don&#8217;t have problems in dealing with the Windows Task Manager. When the computer is on the verge of crashing, they simply press Ctrl+Alt+Del and remove the one process that is compromising the system&#8217;s stability. No big deal!<\/p>\n<p>Casual users are a different thing. The Windows Task Manager is a nonsensical gibberish of names and percentages that doesn&#8217;t make any sense to them, let alone encourages them to take action. How are they supposed to know what to do if they can hardy identify the different active processes?<\/p>\n<p>For all those who don&#8217;t feel comfortable yet when messing up with the Task Manager (we&#8217;ve all gone through that stage at some point during our lives as computer users), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.processlibrary.com\/quicklink\/\"><strong>ProcessQuickLink2<\/strong><\/a> can make things a bit easier. This simple tool is loaded on your system and remains running in the background without apparently changing anything. But if you press Ctrl+Alt+Del to open the Windows Task Manager you&#8217;ll notice a small green icon to the left of each running process. Clicking on this icon will open a web browser with more information on the selected active process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/07\/taskman02.jpg\" alt=\"ProcessQuickLink2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So next time you&#8217;re not sure whether you should end a given process or not, or if you simply want to learn more about what&#8217;s cooking on your system, give this a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced users don&#8217;t have problems in dealing with the Windows Task Manager. When the computer is on the verge of crashing, they simply press Ctrl+Alt+Del and remove the one process that is compromising the system&#8217;s stability. No big deal! Casual users are a different thing. The Windows Task Manager is a nonsensical gibberish of names &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/learn-more-about-active-processes-on-your-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learn more about active processes on your system&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335949,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions\/335949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}