Windows Vista task manager is greatly improved.It comes with useful additional features of managing services and also of file tracking based on the services running.This proves helpful if we want to manage services directly and see their application/system files from task manager instead of going to (Start > Run > services.msc) routine.
Launch task manager (Right click on taskbar and select Task Manager or by Start > Run > taskmgr).Click on Services tab and this will show a list of services (stopped as well as started).Those services whose PID columns are blank instead of a number are the ones that are stopped or simply see the Status column.
Suppose I want to start the service netlogon.
I will right click on service and select Start Service,this will now start showing a PID as the service is now running.
Tracking down a service is also quite simple,right click the service whose info is needed and select Go to Process.
Here I use EvtEng service to track down it’s process and then use that process info to see where the files are really located for this.
This will track that service to it’s associated process which helps us to know which application or which system function is owning that process and hence the service.
Once the process window is opened with the tracked process,right click on Go to File which will open the actual path of application along with the highlighted file that owns the process.
This is a great way to troubleshoot errors where you can’t seem to know which process is doing what but tracking its files will give a clear view on how to go about fixing it.
Hope this has been an informative post.
Peace.