In simple terms, a process is a sequnce of steps under execution.
Each process provides the resources needed to execute a program.
A process has a virtual address space, executable code, open handles to system objects, a security context, a unique process identifier, environment variables, a base priority, minimum and maximum working set sizes, and at least one thread of execution.
Each process is started with a single thread, often called the primary thread, but can create additional threads from any of its threads.
<b>Thread</b>
A thread is a program's path of execution
In other words, a thread is the entity within a process that can be scheduled for execution.
All threads of a process share its virtual address space and system resources.
In addition, each thread maintains exception handlers, a scheduling priority, thread local storage, a unique thread identifier, and a set of structures the system will use to save the thread context until it is scheduled.
For more information on threads, refer this link..
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