Workstation slowdown?

Ever have one of those days where your machine is dragging along?
Maybe IT department deployed an update, or you installed something you shouldn't have.

Whatever the cause - Windows 'Task Manager' doesn't help much... especially when svchost.exe is the culprit. There could be dozens of services running under svchost. You'll never know which one is problematic until you can dig deeeper. Process Explorer is a nice tool to do just that. It let's you expand processes by their threads, DLLS, and examine their CPU+memory usage at a granular level.

It's a first step to healing disfigured workstations:
Process Explorer v11.04