Good system processes software

Anyone know of any free software for monitoring the system processes on your machine?

I'm running windows xp and i can use ctrl+alt+del and see my system processes running there, but its not great. I used to have other software that i could run and it gave me much more info about the processes running in the background on my machine. I can't remember what it was called though.

Anyone any ideas where i can get something like that for free?

John.

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Sorry,
Its ok, i found what i was looking for. It was called "Process explorer". I got it on cnet.com; http://download.cnet.com/Process-Explorer/3000-2094_4-10223605.html

Funny, i'm sure it was someone here in this number crunching forum that originally suggested i use that software. Its very good!

Anyway, i have what i was looking for,
John.

"Process Explorer" is probably what you've used to use.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653

Edit: a minute too late...

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Thanks Mad Fritz,
Yep, i got it alright. Its a good little bit of kit for seeing whats going on in the background on your PC.

Thank you my friend,
John.

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Yep, only VISTA and Windows 7, have an 'extended Taskviewer' or
Source Control, reachable through Task Manager.

But Process Explorer, provides enough info about CPU; Memory; HDDs; LAN;
and running, stopped, automatic and manual processes.

Also SiSoft Sandra or "equivalents", is nice to get actuall info about your CPUs and GPUs performance in several cases.
Also BenchMarks.

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