Paradox Designs

One of my favorite tools for windows is Process explorer. Process explorer is a tool that integrates itself into the shell (if you tell it to do so), and replaces the task manager. It provides an enhanced view of every process running on the system, as well as CPU stats, Commit stats, and IO stats. While it is fairly basic without configuration, if you enable the tree view, and add a few columns (such as CPU history), it becomes downright useful. If you are using windows, and wish to have better control over your processes, download and use this tool. Its completely self contained, so you can put it on a flash drive or cd. Best of all, its free, and fully supported by microsoft.

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