- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $25.00 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: January 19, 2004
- Total Downloads: 415,263
- Downloads last week: 1,748
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 80 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Ever wonder if your PC is keeping secrets from you? Wonder no more. The freeware utility What's Running reveals all your system's active processes, services, drivers, and connections.
It's like Windows Task Manager, except far more informative. The cramped multipane interface is very hard to read, but even it has its good points: it lists processes in a parent-child hierarchy, not a bad way to accidentally spot malware. It also lets you choose which columns of information to display, and it makes stopping or prioritizing processes as simple as a mouse click--a right-click, to be precise. It even lets you control which programs launch at start-up.
Looks aside, What's Running ought to appeal to system administrators, support specialists, and tech-savvy home users who want to know precisely what their computer is up to.
Publisher's description
From WhatsRunning.net :This application helps you investigate what applications, processes, and files are running on your computer. In addition you can see what IP connections each process has open and what DLLs are in use. See extensive system information in a simple graphical user interface.
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User reviews of What's Running 1.0
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 80 votes
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Version: What's Running 1.0
"Shows "What's Running" in great detail"
Summary: A great informational program - free for non-commercial use. I was quite surprised at what WAS running. An excellent tool to help determine what is going on in your system.
This is definately NOT Task Manager! -
Version: What's Running 1.0
Summary: none
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Version: What's Running 1.0
Summary: This tool is great! Beeing able to cross-reference between processes, loaded dll's, services and IP-connections are functions totally lacking from the OS and Task Manager, but with this tools it's a no-brainer!
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Version: What's Running 1.0
"Spend that $25.00 on a common sense course"
Summary: Why pay for this when it doesn't do ANYTHING that good old Ctrl-Alt-Delete doesn't do in 2000/XP- this would be worthwhile in earlier versions (98 especially) so the fact it doesnt support these is commercial suicide in my view
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