Lance, is PrcView similiar to Belarc Advisor? If so, how does one compare to the other? Thanks Doris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 10:23 PM Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] lexplore Bob, in Task Manager, when you have Internet Explorer open, you will see it listed in APPLICATIONS with the recognizable blue "Ie" icon. When you click on the PROCESSES tab, you see it listed again as "iexplorer.exe", that is, the executable file (or Process) that allows IE to run. If you have two or more instances of IE running (IE doesn't have tabbed browsing like Firefox), you will see that there are two or more entries under both APPLICATIONS and PROCESSES (what you said you are seeing). You have nothing to worry about it. It certainly is part of IE. If you really want to see at anytime just what processes are running and where they are actually on your hard drive, there is a handy utility called PrcView which will allow you to view those processes: http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm It gives a listing of the running processes and lists their path to find them in Explorer. Lance

Doris, PrcView is a process viewer utility that displays detailed information about processes running under Windows. For each process it displays memory, threads and module usage. For each DLL it shows full path and version information: http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hot fixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html As you can see they produce two entirely different reports. Lance -----Original Message----- From: Doris Mathis [mailto:doris40@aeroinc.net] Sent: Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:05 PM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] lexplore Lance, is PrcView similiar to Belarc Advisor? If so, how does one compare to the other? Thanks Doris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com>

Thanks for all the info Lance. Doris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 8:10 PM Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] lexplore Doris, PrcView is a process viewer utility that displays detailed information about processes running under Windows. For each process it displays memory, threads and module usage. For each DLL it shows full path and version information: http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hot fixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html As you can see they produce two entirely different reports. Lance