User's Manual
Additional tools
88
If you wish to view more information on an application or a process, you can
select it in the list and then click Show Details. Click Terminate Process to
close a program. This is a somewhat drastic measure, but is sometimes necessary
to close a program that has hung, or if you want to stop an unwanted dialer.
If User Access Control is activated in Windows Vista, it is possible that initially
only the processes that you started are shown. To see the processes started by
other users and by the system, click on the button at the lower border of the
window entitled Show all processes.
Open files tab
The Open Files tab provides an overview of all files and folders that are
currently open on the computer, including information on the file type and
location and which process is currently using the file.
You should not be surprised when some files are shown in the list more than
once. Files and folders can be opened by more than one process at the same time.
The list of open
files.