Check out this super-powerful, free alternative to Task Manager, from Microsoft. Windows isn’t just for hard-core geeks or just for novices. Being the most popular operating system on the planet, ...

Whenever you click on any folder icon, explorer.exe opens. Click on any folder inside it and explorer.exe will open this folder also in the same process. This is so, by default, File Explorer opens ...

A glib definition of Process Explorer is that it’s Task Manager on steroids. But that doesn’t do it justice. I prefer to compare it to the dashboard of a car. A Windows computer without Process ...

If you need to get something done by constantly feel bombarded by distractions around your computer, there's no need to block programs from running—you can just shut down your taskbar so you can't ...

First, you need to terminate the existing explorer.exe process. Open Task Manager Locate explorer.exe process Right-click on it and select End Task. Having done that you have three options to run ...

One of perhaps the strangest idiosyncrasies of the Windows platform is the association of the desktop, the digital workspace that users see all the time, with explorer.exe, the program in charge of ...

I've been experiencing this since RTM in November. Every once in a while my Vista Ultimate runs up to 100% CPU, for as long as I can stand to watch it before I log off or reboot or yank the power cord ...