Specifically, the process is for streaming games from your PC to the NVIDIA Shield, which I don’t have. In my case, it was related to the NVIDIA streaming service, which is safe, but not something I needed. nvstreamsvc.exe.Īlways, click through at least the first four to five links and you’ll instantly get a good idea of whether or not the program is safe or not.

Firstly, if you don’t recognize a process name, go ahead and Google it using the full name, i.e. You have to use some third-party websites to help you identify the process. In and of itself, the information here won’t necessarily help you figure out whether something is good or bad.

Under Network Activity, you want to look at the Address field, which should give you an IP address or the DNS name of the remote server. You’ll notice there is an empty checkbox next to each process, which can be used as a filter for all the other sections.įor example, I wasn’t sure what nvstreamsvc.exe was, so I checked it and then looked at the data in the other sections. You’ll also be able to see the total amount of data sent and received in bytes per second for each process. In the Processes with Network Activity section, the list includes all the processes that have any kind of network activity. You can click on a header in any column to sort the data in ascending or descending order. On this tab, you’ll see several sections with different types of data: Processes with Network Activity, Network Activity, TCP Connections and Listening Ports.Īll the data listed in these screens are updated in real time. You’ll see several tabs across the top and the one we want to click on is Network. To open it, you have to click on Start and then type in resource monitor. The easiest way to check out all the connections your computer is making is to use Resource Monitor.

I’m going to mention the command prompt last since that’s the most technical and hardest to decipher. There are three ways you can go about monitoring the connections that your computer makes to the Internet: via the command prompt, using Resource Monitor or via third-party programs.

Tcpview output