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View what's killing another Windows process

I'm trying to figure out what (if any) process is killing another process on my Windows 10 machine. When I boot, after logging in, explorer fails to launch and I'm met with a black screen. I can ...
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See what spawned a process

How does one see what spawned a process? Say there is a process visible in Task Manager and you want to see the history of that process spawning. I found a mysterious SQL Server VSS Writer running ...
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How to track or dump all process memory throughtout process's lifetime?

There are several tools that exist for dumping process memory. I like to use procdump for simplicity. Problem The issue I am currently facing with all of these tools is that they will dump process ...
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Command line tools to view process list in Windows 10. pslist slow

Default Task Manager and Sysinternals ProcessExplorer are well-known GUI applications to show processes details in Windows 10. I use both. Windows 10 comes also with command-line tasklist.exe. It ...
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Skype still receiving calls after terminating process

Skype on Windows 10 will still receive incoming calls even after terminating the process. There are no services to disable under the names 'Skype' or 'Microsoft Skype'. How can I prevent Skype from ...
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what service creates windows security auditing event 4798 in Win 10

Using Win 10 At the beginning of every session or working in any app that accesses network, I am getting a flurry of "Audit Success - Microsoft Windows Auditing 4798 User Account Management" This ...
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Cannot kill process that is blocking port 8080

I'm trying to kill a process that is using port 8080 on my local machine. But when I try, Windows tells me Access Denied. I looked a the process using Process Explorer and I see it's the System ...
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Unable to Stop-Process with Powershell

I'm spinning up an npm http-server in powershell and need to stop it before my script exists. Currently I have $server = Start-Process http-server -passthru Stop-Process -InputObject $server This ...
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how to have renderdocui.exe run GTAVLauncher.exe while script hook v dll is in the game directory?

I get this error when I am starting the GTAV game using RenderDoc (v 0.27) and I have Script HooK V dll in the GTAV game directory (which is for game modding). I get this error: win32_network.cpp( ...
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Acer Veriton N281G,processor and HDD goes 100%

I have Acer Veriton N281G 4GB RAM intel Atom D425 1.80Ghz HDD 320GB installed windows 10. i have installed a clean windows but when start up prossessor and HDD go to 100% i dont understand why.any ...
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Windows 10 not releasing Processes

For the past month i have been going crazy as to why my Render systems where crashing, logs looked normal, or, they didn't have any particular errors relating to the crashes. the last week i have ...
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How to find out what process created a certain file after the deed has been done?

I know this question exists. What are my options to get a hold of an application (probably malfunction in code) that creates a "bad file" like in this screenshot: It's always exactly this file, with ...
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Windows Slow Down: high ram and CPU usage by miscellaneous windows process

I recently experienced the slowdown of my windows 10 desktop pc. Issue - slow Windows due to mysterious process DESCRIPTION: I checked the task manager for finding reason of slowdown. There I saw a ...
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App Runs as Background Process Instead of as an App

I have successfully installed and run a screen share app on both of my desktops. But, on my laptop, when I open the app, it runs as a background process instead of as an app (as seen in Task Manager). ...
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