Windows Server 2008 R2 has been at RC (release candidate) for a little while now which means it’s almost finished and the RTM date has now been announced as August, so we have started having a look at 2008 R2.
Over the coming weeks we will post as we find and try out new features.
To kick it off, Microsoft have finally made a good process explorer in 2008 R2 and Windows 7, the screen shot shows – in top box a list of all the running processes for the CPU which I have selected services.exe
The next box down shows the Associated Handles for that process where you can select an individual one and end it if it is causing problems, you can also search the handles if there are a lot, which with some processes there are.
Next down is the Associated Modules, this shows every running module for that process, its PID, version and the full path for you can find it.
Under overview Tab you can select the process which then becomes selected in each of the other tabs for CPU and Memory making it easier to view exactly what that process is doing. Below is a screen shot of the new Resource monitor (Click the image to see full size)
