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Figure 12-13 Services associated with the LSASS.EXE process

Let’s get back to the End Process Tree option. It’s very common for a

single process to be dependent on other processes (or for a process to start

other processes). This creates a tree of dependencies. Sadly, the Task

Manager doesn’t give you any clue as to what processes depend on other

processes, but it still gives you the option to End Process Tree, which ends

not only the process, but any process it depends on. At first glance, this is

scary since it’s very common for many processes to depend on one important

process. Microsoft makes this less scary, as it will not let you kill a process

tree for the most important system processes.

Even so, it would be nice to actually see what processes you’re about to

kill, wouldn’t it? That’s when the popular (and free) Process Explorer,

written by Mark Russinovitch, is your go-to tool (see Figure 12-14).

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