There’s another useful column way over to the right of the display. If you find it difficult to follow lines across the screen, you can also mark every other line in light grey, and add gridlines from this menu. You can also go to View -> Choose Columns and re-order them, or switch off those you don’t require. I advise pulling “Process Created On” to the very left of the display because this acts as a handy time index to events. If you grab a column header with the mouse, you can pull it to wherever you want. You can highlight a piece of information, then copy and paste it into other documents etc. This basically summarises the data in each of the columns. If you double click on a line, a pop-up appears giving details of the process.

Each time you press CTRL+Plus (on the keypad) the columns will auto-resize themselves. Scroll across the display to see the information offered on each connection. Press Alt + 1 to set an update time of one second, Alt + 2 for two seconds and so on. By default, the listing is unsorted and doesn’t automatically update, but we can change that. It will create a configuration file called cports.cfg in whichever folder you run it from (including the desktop).

You can run CurrPorts from anywhere including the Desktop. If you run a 64-bit architecture, be sure to download the 64-bit version. You can download CurrPorts from its homepage. Unlike Process Monitor, which is part of the excellent Windows Sysinternals suite, CurrPorts isn’t a massive firehose of events that needs taming to be of any use.

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