OT: info on processes in WinXP

Off-topic, but relevant to understanding more about the system that is running your Sonar software...

Most of us are already familiar with the Windows Task Manager. It's useful for seeing what processes are running and diagnosing potential conflicts when using your system as a DAW -- but it falls short in many ways, such as the location of the programs for those processes and any background information on those processes, etc.

There are a couple of useful tools in this regards and, rather surprisingly, one of them is part of Microsoft's free download "AntiSpyware (beta)". The other is a third party utility called WinTasks.

WinTasks shows the most complete information about the processes and it makes you wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer this information within its built in Windows Task Manager. However, there is some hope if their AntiSpyware utility is anything to go by. Not only does it seem like a pretty decent utility for the advertised task, it also has an option to view more detailed information about the processes that are running on your system. Not as comprehensive as the other WinTasks but a step in the right direction.

Anyway, I thought some of you might find this interesting. I know there are a bunch of utilities out there, plus more "hidden stuff" within Windows, so feel free to add anything in this area...

Hello wogg

Yes, that's what I usually do too. Still, it's handy to have this at your fingertips in an app like especially if you're running on a system NOT connected to the net.

There's also a veiled and gentle rant in my post that this kind of information is not present where it ought to be. Windows comes with so much more than an OS, and it's surprising how hard they make it to get the information about the running of the OS itself.

Is this what you are looking for
http://www.processlibrary.com/

I think that link is the one I had come across that led me to WinTasks -- or at least something like it -- that I had found the "Google Search" route (as also suggested by wogg above).

If you select one of the processes in the list at the "processlibrary.com" site (say abcdefg.exe), you'll notice that it has a corresponding link that says:
"Use WinTasks 5 Pro to Block/Remove abcdefg.exe"

Thanks for posting the link because it's a good starting place for others too... :-)