We all lead busy lives, and keeping our Windows systems neat and tidy is usually not on the top of our to-do lists. All too often, we don’t get around to cleaning our PCs until they’re a real mess — when users start complaining about websites taking a long time to load and slow startup times.

One solution is a pair of utilities from Sysinternals (now owned by Microsoft, but don’t let that stop you) called Process Explorer and Process Monitor. A review of both can be found here on Techtarget’s site.