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When System PID 4 is locking a file or folder, How can I determine what program/process/service is locking it without guesswork?
(This question is not a duplicate of Find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows I am asking specifically about when PID-4 is locking it (besides the fact that i'm saying without ...
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What's the difference between an application, a process and a service? [duplicate]
I know that an application is a program that you interact with on the desktop, but what exactly are processes and services?
Are services classified as processes or is it the other way round?
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What command line options are available to svchost.exe?
It seems the only command line option used by Windows for svchost.exe is -k, followed by the group name which svchost needs to start for a given service. Yet, use of a command line option indicates ...
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xperf profile services
When I profile using xperf there are always cases when I see, that, say svhost(1552) "eating resources". I could then go to ProcessExplorer and see that svhost(1552) running like 10 services.
How to ...
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What's the difference between an Application, a Process, and a Service?
How are these fundamentally different "things" on Windows?
Aren't all running things Processes?
It seems that every Application has an associated process that shuts it down if it is shut ...
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How to disable google updater, running in background as googleupdate.exe? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to stop the Google Update background tool?
Hello,
How to disable google updater, running in background as googleupdate.exe ?
I tried Googling but none worked me well !
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Lenovo ThinkPad: What does the PWMDBSVC.exe service do? It's writing a C:\Log.txt file
I found a file that keeps popping up in my C:\ drive root, Log.txt ... after installing Process Monitor and seeing what process was writing to it, I came across PWMDBSVC.exe, which appears to be part ...
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