

To bring up the second pane, click View | Show Lower Pane. Process Explorer can also run in two-pane mode. Another click of that column's header causes the display to be sorted in descending order by that column. The display is then sorted in ascending order by that column.

To sort by a column, just click that column's header. Sometimes, though, you may want to sort by process name (especially if you're interested in a particular process) or by another column that you've added. I usually have the display sorted by CPU so that the most CPU-intensive processes appears near the top. By right-clicking a column header you can select several other columns that can be displayed. Process Explorer's Main Screen.īy default Process Explorer displays five columns: the process name, its PID (process ID), the CPU percentage it's using, the process' description, and the company name. When you first launch it, the main screen can be quite overwhelming. Process Explorer is a GUI-based utility that allows you to look at and, to some degree, manipulate the processes on your system. I just introduce it here and give you a high-level overview of a few things you can do with it so that you can add it to your toolbox. It has so much functionality built into it that it would require many tips to do a decent job covering it. Process Explorer comes to us from the folks at Sysinternals, so it's very well designed and implemented.
