I’m posting this as a result of a conversation I had earlier this week about “dude-where-is-my-stuff-in-process-explorer“- I had always assumed this was just something everyone knew.  (Like Ctrl+C in a msgbox)

Anyway, so now I thought I’d share this snippet of trivia with you.  when you use process explorer (and you should be), under Vista you will notice [by default] that “some of your stuff” is missing.  See the screen shots below.

So if this happens to you:  Hold Shift+right click, and select “Run as administrator“, and things will be as they should be.

ProcExp run as a ‘regular user’

ProcExp run as a 'regular user'

ProcExp using ‘run as Administrator’:

ProcExp using 'run as Administrator' 

Tada!