Knowledge and skills are not the only important thing for a computer or network technicians. A proper set of tools and gadgets are also required, both hardwares and softwares. That’s why they say Tools are vital. Without a proper sets of tools, a computer technician can still finish most of the task gave to them, but it surely will take more time and effort.
Sysinternals advanced system utilities and technical information can help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer or a novice user. Their utilities are quite simple to use and more important this it definitely saves us more time rather than exploring the whole registery.
They have more than 50 utilities packed in Sysinternals Suite which you can have them in a single download. You can visit their site to see list of their utilities. Now let see a few samples.
Autoruns
Sysinternals Autorun
shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. Using this tool, you can easily manage your start up program. You can just disable, delete the entry and you can also check out the file properties with just a click(right) on your mouse. If you want to check an entry in the registery, just select jump to on the right click menu.
Process Explorer
Sysinternals Process Explorer
shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. It listed out all active process with detail information like Process ID, CPU usage, window title, company name and description. It also can show you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. It’s like an Advance Task Manager with much more functions.
” The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work. “
You can visit Sysinternals for more information on other great tools like file & disk utilities, networking and security utilities. Hope this information will help us improve our daily jobs. Thanks.
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@Luffie, sorry for my late reply.
I believe your system is infected with virus/trojan/malware or any kind of it. I would like to suggest Malwarebytes (you can find them easily). If you cant login to windows normally, Malwarebytes also useable in SafeMode. And please turn off System Restore before you scan your system . Then you can sysinternals tools like autorun to check & remove any additional setting made by those viruses.
Note : For a quick hardware test, usually i use Everest for System Stabily Test & HDD Tune for harddisk test. In your case, i dont think you have hardware problems. Anyway, you gotta clean up your system before running any test.
Good Luck Luffie .
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Sy baru lg dalam bidang ni, banyak juga tools berguna dalam ni. TQ for sharing ..