General

Current process info pane

Pane at the right bottom of the main window of TaskInfo contains tabs with information about current process selected in process pane. Note that information is shown only for real processes (not Idle, VxD NTKern etc.). Show sample

Select name of a tab to read its description:

General	Modules	Files
Handles	GDI	Connections
Env	Image Info	Thread

‘General’ tab contains general information about current process. Show sample

General information about current process includes:

CMD	Command line of current process. Typically it contains full path for main executable file, but it is true not for all processes.
Curr Dir	Current directory (folder) of current process. Usually files used by process are opened in its current directory, but not always it is true.
Started By	Name of parent process that has launched current process. Windows Explorer starts most processes. Shown only if parent process is still active at the moment.
Data KB	Amount of memory used for data by current process (in kilobytes): total amount, in mem – in physical memory and in use – recently used. Available under Windows 9x (95/98/ME) only.
Code KB	Amount of memory used for executable code by current process (in kilobytes): total amount, in mem – in physical memory and in use – recently used. Available under Windows 9x (95/98/ME) only.
Handles Count	Number of system handles opened by current process (opened files, synchronization objects, threads, mapped DLLs, other mapped files etc.).
Windows	Number of windows opened by current process. For example, dialog application creates and uses windows for each control in dialog: buttons, text labels, dialog window itself etc.

Information available under Windows NT/2000/XP:

Virtual KB	Amount of memory (in kilobytes) mapped in address space of process: DLLs, main executable file, allocated memory etc.
Page File KB	Amount of memory (in kilobytes) allocated in swap file. This and two previous values are presented as current and peak values.
Private KB	Amount of virtual memory (in kilobytes) owned by current process only. This memory is not shared with other processes.
Working Set KB	Amount of physical memory (in kilobytes) currently used by process.
System Pool KB	Amount of memory (in kilobytes) allocated from system kernel for objects that corresponds to current process: ‘Paged’ – swappable part of system pool, ‘Non-paged’ – non-swappable part of system pool.
Faults Count	Total amount of page faults in current process from its start.

Information available under Windows 2000/XP only:

Reads	Amount of read operations for current process: ‘Read IOs’ – total amount of read operations, ‘Read KB’ – total amount of read data (in kilobytes).
Writes	Amount of write operations for current process: ‘Write IOs’ – total amount of write operations, ‘Write KB’ – total amount of read data (in kilobytes).
Other IOs	Amount of other input/output operations for current process: ‘Other IOs’ – total amount of input/output operations, ‘Other KB’ – total amount of input/output data (in kilobytes).
Objects	Amount of USER and GDI objects opened by current process

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