Managing a Windows Process

Diagnose and resolve errors and issues.

A process is an application that is being executed. Each running process is uniquely identified on a computer with a process identifier.

When a process executes, it consumes resources such as processor time and primary memory. Managing a Windows process involves getting execution information about the running processes and, if required, starting or stopping a process.

The System.Diagnostics namespace provides several classes that help with process management. The key to working with processes is the Process class, which represents an instance of a process. You can either create instances of the Process class programmatically or you can use the Process component from the Windows ...

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