This list is constantly updating, but if you want to freeze it in time-say, to examine a process that appears and disappears quicker than you can click on it-you can hit the space bar to pause the updates.

If you’d prefer an alphabetical listing instead, just click the “process name” column heading. The processes are presented hierarchically, which means if a process spawns another process, the child process will be listed nested underneath the parent. (Pro tip: Micronsoft is not a legitimate software manufacturer.) You can customize your columns to include more or less information by right-clicking on the column heading, just like any other program with sortable columns. It lists the process name, the process description, CPU and memory usage, and the company name of the software’s creator-something that’s very useful when you’re malware hunting.

This shouldn’t be completely unfamiliar if you’ve used the Details tab in Task Manager (aka the Processes tab in Windows XP and earlier). In the top half of the main window, you’ll see a list of processes.

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