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I noticed recently that a lot of the time comments would be repeated, twice, maybe three times quite often. It puzzled me for quite a while why this was happening.

Then I posted a comment myself the other day and realised what was happening. My ever reliable web host (well, you can rely on them to ensure things that did work don't continue to work) was not processing a piece of code as it had done before, which meant when a comment was posted, an error screen appeared. So I figure users were seeing the error, using the back button and posting again. Despite the error, the comments were being posted.

I've sorted that out now so hopefully no more repeat comments!

Occasionally you get comments posted to the site from people disgruntled that there isn't an answer to their specific problem and protesting that there are adverts on the site.

So to clarify:

1) I don't provide the answers. I provide the facilities for people to share their knowledge. Thousands and thousands of useful comments have been posted from well meaning people. Unfortunately, not every process has the information that people want - that's just the way it is.
2) A lot of work went into the website and the application, which is completely free. A few adverts on the along the way help me make a living.

There was one particularly foul mouthed comment posted recently, which I will quote here:

what the fuck is it? all u r doing is trying to sell wintask pro
fuck off prick

Posted by Fuck off

I was intrigued as to the identity of this charming poster, so took a look at the IP address - 161.85.127.139. I performed a trace route on it and it turns out that IP is an internal IP address from the electronics company, Philips. I wonder if their corporate internet policy allows the posting of obscene messages to internet sites. I know the Dutch are open minded but thats strong language in my book and I don't think I'll be getting my new TV from them.

Someone was asking me recently how to list the running processes from the command line (start->run->cmd.exe).

I did a bit of reading and there seems to be two main ways of achieving this.

Tasklist.exe
Tasklist is a neat little command line util in Windows XP Professional that will list all the running processes. But it has some extra functionality that is really cool. People often see svchost.exe running with multiple instances, read on What Process or other sites that this process spawns other processes or services and aren't sure which ones, because Task Manager doesn't give much away. By using the command "tasklist.exe /svc", a list of tasks is outputted to the screen AND their associated services. So you can see what service each svchost.exe was responsible for.

WMI
Windows Management Instrumentation is a great tool for controlling and extracting information from your PC. It forms the basis of the work behind What-Process, which is not particularly complicated. wmic.exe is the command line tool for leveraging WMI.

Basic Command
WMIC process get caption 'caption is the name of the process

Extending the Command
WMIC process get caption, commandline 'commandline tells you the path to the executable on your PC

There's lots of other information you can get about the processes that are running. Find out the list of switches available to you by typing this command

WMIC process get /?

So there we have it: two nice and easy ways to get information about your currently running processes from the command line!

I've spent a bit time over last couple of days trying to refresh the look of What-Process.com, which was starting to look a little bit dated.

Changes Made:

• New logo designed
• Key menu items moved to horizontal bar
• Onsite Advertising reduced and made less prominent
  
• Layout simplified
• Some "web 2.0 style" shaders

I'm still working on getting this blogger template to work with the new look, so it looks a bit rough round the edges now, but hopefully the changes will be seen as an improvment.

Sorry for the short downtime this morning. Had to fiddle about the with the websites hosting package so the website was inaccessible for about 20 minutes.

I received this email from Winnie:

I am a little confused, please can you tell me how I can find the answers to any questions raised? at the moment I can only find the questions and NOT the answers.

Hi Winnie. 'What Process?' is a website designed to allow Windows processes be explained and demystified, with a primary aim or saying what a process actually is. We currently have thousands of processes listed, and over 4000 user contributions. Some of those contributions are questions, many are answers or explanations. But all the contributions come from the website users, and I'm afraid if nobody has answered questions you have about specific processes, then that's unfortunate but probably means the collective users of the site do not know the answer or have not seen the question.

I think your specific issue related to lucallbackproxy.exe. This has been identified on the site as being "part of the Live Update process of Norton anti-virus". If you're having problems with it and can't find answers online, you might need to contact Symantec and see if they can answer your question or problem.