Every application that you started or the ones that got started automatically can be consuming a lot of memory.You can know which processes are running in the background by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del in Windows but the details are not complete like the process id,parent process id,ip connections and many more like this.Knowing which process is running in the background can let you decide which process to run or not,freeing your memory and getting your system to work faster.

To get detailed information about whats running in the background like processes, IP Connections, Modules Services, Start-Up applications,Drivers, System Information.Get yourself a tool called WhatsRunning from WhatsRunning.net to get all this information.

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It works on Windows 2000/XP/2003 systems.