Sunday, May 28, 2006

Process List

You may wonder as to how come some program like yahoo messenger starting up automatically as I used to confuse before, everytime you switch on a pc. They are called start up program and you can check them by right clicking task bar/ task manager/under process tab. There are a numbers of programs, technically calling .exe files, are functioning in your pc's background which and what exactly of their job is beyond your knowledge, some are obvious like a firefox.exe, your browser's executable file and some are a bit confusing like operating system files, without it your computer will not function properly. What is important is that there also harmful programs called virus and spyware are out there trying to attack you, unfortunately some of them may be there already without your invitation. Now you can check them to get an idea of what is what. Here is a long listing that you want to know. check it out.

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