Pranshu Parmar

Pranshu Parmar is an independent Windows developer whose single public utility, “witr – Why is this running?”, distills years of low-level system investigation into a lightweight desktop tool that answers a question every user eventually asks when Task Manager reveals unfamiliar processes. By tracing each entry back through its launch chain—parent process, scheduled trigger, service dependency, driver, or autostart entry—the program reconstructs the full lineage that put an executable in memory, then overlays the path with contextual hints such as digital-certificate status, prevalence data, network activity, and known adware or telemetry tags. The interface is deliberately minimal: a searchable list of active processes, a color-coded confidence score, and a collapsible tree that shows how a given item was invoked, why it may persist, and what happens if it is disabled. Typical use-cases range from gamers removing bloatware that spikes CPU on launch, to sysadmins documenting server anomalies, to privacy-minded owners auditing silent updaters or OEM add-ons. Because the scanner operates in user space and never terminates code itself, it is routinely deployed alongside antivirus, RMM, or scripting toolkits for quick triage before deeper remediation. Pranshu Parmar’s witr is available for free on get.nero.com, delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest build, and supporting batch deployment alongside other utilities.