

You might not think at first glance that color coding your processes is much to get excited about (and believe me, I am able to keep my excitement about color coding in check). ( Editor’s Note: Download the latest Sysinternals utilities, including Sysinternals Process Explorer, from the Microsoft Sysinternals website. Co-founder Mark Russinovich has been steadily updating many of the Sysinternals utilities by adding Windows 8 support, fixing bugs, and adding new features.


In this article, I give you five very excellent reasons for making the switch and replacing Task Manager with the free Sysinternals Process Explorer. Over the course of a year, an IT pro can end up spending quite a lot of time looking at Task Manager, so why settle for anything less than optimal? How many times per week do you use Task Manager? Depending on your role in IT, you could be using Task Manager anywhere from 3 to 25 times per week.
