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Useful Desktop Tools for Windows, Part 2 - ProcessQuickLink

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ProcessQuickLink is a free Windows utility that enables you to discover the nature of those mysterious tasks you find running under Microsoft Windows. It can help you find out with a single mouse click whether a given task is benign or suspect.

This continues a series of articles about utilities that can make life easier for you as a  user of Microsoft Windows. (At the moment, this is still the majority of us. If it's not for you, simply move on.)

 

As mentioned in the first part of this occasional series, I'm always on the look-out for useful utility software that will make my life easier and my work more efficient as I go about my daily work, and I like letting you know in the hope and expectation that they'll be useful for you too.

There's a vast maze of tools for Windows, some of them not worth the binary digits they're made of, but every now and then you come across a little gem.

Today it's the turn of ProcessQuickLink (free to download and use, the download link is on this page).

This is which is part of the Uniblue Systems Process Library web site, one of a number of sites that list details about the numerous tasks (Microsoft or third party) that you might find running under your Windows installation.

Icons in the left margin of the Windows Task Manager.
      Figure 1 - Icons in left margin of Windows Task Manager

We see that ProcessQuickLink displays an icon in the left margin (circled in red) against each active task.

Why is that helpful, and how do you use it? Please read on.



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