Windows Processes, Process List
Processes window contains list of running processes.
Columns
- Process - Process name
- Product - Product description provided by file vendor
- Security Risk - Overall security risk for this item. 'No risk' - reliable program. 'Low'/'Medium' - pay attention, check on Virustotal. 'High' - remove this item. To change security risk on your opinion, in the context menu click 'Change Security Rating, Add Comment...' and add your comment to this item.
- Startup - Type of a process startup if it is run on Windows startup
- CPU % - Processor usage
- Disk Load - Summarized amount of data that process reads from disk and writes to disk per second
- Network: Received - Amount of data downloaded by a process from Internet or network
- Network: Sent - Amount of data uploaded by a process to Internet or network
- Download Speed - Current download speed
- Upload Speed - Current upload speed
- Memory Usage - Set of memory pages visible to a process in physical RAM
- Pagefile Usage - Amount of pagefile space that a process is using currently
- Work Time - Time pasts since a process was created [days hours minutes] or [hh:mm:ss]
- Priority - Scheduling priority of a process
- PID - Numeric identifier used to distinguish one process from another. Process IDs are valid from process creation time to process termination.
- Parent Process - Unique identifier, name and icon of process that created a process
- Window Title - Title of a process window
- Tray Icons Text - Text of tray icons and icon in system tray created by a process
- Company - Product vendor
- Executable File - Path to the process executable file
- CPU Time - Processor time usage [hh:mm:ss]
- User Name - Name of user started a process
- First Detected - When process was detected first time. Items detected in the last week are marked.
Menu commands
File
Save HijackThisPro Log... – Save information about system to the file in HijackThis format
Save Processes Report as Html... - Save list of processes to html file
Exit – exit program
Processes
Detailed Info Double Click – Show/hide detailed info window
Change Security Rating, Add Comment... – Change security rating of a file and add user comment to the file
File Properties Alt+Enter – Properties of file of the process
System Menu Shift+RClick – Show system context menu of the file of the process
Navigate
Show File In Explorer – Open Explorer and select file of the process
Switch to Startup - Open Startup window and select the startup item of the process
Switch to Service - Open Services window and select the service of the process
Switch to Parent Alt+Up - Select parent process
Add to Startup – Add running process to Windows startup
Set Priority – Change priority of the process
Realtime - Process can use all CPU resources and block other programs
High – Process can use much CPU resources
Above Normal
Normal – default priority
Below Normal
Low - Process can’t use much CPU resources and wait while other programs do their jobs
Auto Change Priority... – Open Processes Priority dialog, priority will be automatically changed when the process starts
Run As Service - Run application as service on Windows startup before user login
New Process... Ctrl+N - Run new process
Kill Process Del – Terminate process
Kill Process Tree Ctrl+Del – Terminate process with all process that it created
Block Process (Quarantine) – Open Blocked Processes dialog, automatically terminate process immediately after it starts
Restart – Terminate process and run it with the same parameters
Suspend Process – Suspend process, freeze all operations of the process
Resume Process - Resume suspended process
Free Memory – Swap all memory used by a process to the disk. When a process becomes foreground again and it needs its memory it reads memory from disk.
Check with AntiViruses on VirusTotal - Check file with 30 AntiVirus engines on site VirusTotal.com
Search in Web
Google - Search information about process in Google
Google News - Search information about process in Google News
Text Operations
Copy to Clipboard - Copy to clipboard full information about process
Copy Path - Copy to clipboard path of process file
Find... Ctrl+F – Find text in the Processes window
Find Next F3 – Find text in the Processes window
Refresh F5 – refresh data in the Processes window
View
Columns – select columns to show/hide in the window
Always On Top – Set application above all other applications
Toolbar – show/hide toolbar
Grid – show/hide grids in all windows
Status Bar - show/hide status bar
Detailed Info - Show/hide detailed info window
Text Colors
Security Risk Rate [red/yellow/green] – Enable/disable colors of security analysis
Hide Microsoft Processes [grey] – Show programs of Microsoft with grey text color
Mark New Processes [bold] – Mark new processes with bold font
Mark Processes that Consume Resources [blue+red] – Mark processes that consume resources with blue text color and consumed resources with red color