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What are the states a process can be in during its lifecycle in Windows?

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05-12-2024, 06:37 PM
You ever wonder what a process does after you kick it off in Windows? I mean, it doesn't just sit there forever. It bounces through a few moods, kinda like a buddy chilling or hustling.

Picture this: the process gets born, all fresh and ready to roll. It's itching to jump in, but Windows decides when. You see, it's waiting its turn, not running yet.

Then bam, it grabs the spotlight and starts chugging along. That's when it's fully active, gobbling resources like crazy. I love watching that happen in Task Manager.

But sometimes it hits a snag, like waiting for a file or some input. So it pauses, hangs back in the shadows. Not dead, just twiddling thumbs until the coast clears.

If it needs the CPU but can't get it right away, it queues up again. Back to that ready vibe, jostling for position. Processes flip-flop like that all day.

And when the job's done, or you kill it, poof-it's gone. Wrapped up, no more fuss. Windows cleans house, frees up the space.

Those shifts keep your system humming without chaos. I tweak 'em sometimes to smooth out lags on my rig.

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