Tablet PC Edition Processes
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Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Processes
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Tablet PC Specific
- What is all this stuff doing on my computer Jonathan Hardwick
- Debugging SP2 on the Tablet PC - managed code, tabtip.exe, and procexp Jonathan Hardwick
- Common Tablet background programs John Land (Tablet PC Buzz)
- My Tablet PC Is Running How Many Processes? Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2:
- Cleaning House on Your Tablet PC GoodThings2Life on the StudentTabletPC Forums
Not specific to Tablet PCs
Tools for Diagnosing & Controlling Processess
This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.
- Process Explorer
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.
