System Monitor Alternatives and Similar Software

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Process Explorer

Free by Mark Russinovich |
Windows

Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The display consists of two sub-windows. The top always shows a list of the currently active processes,...

OS & Utilities task-manager, analysis, process-management, process
+4 more taskmanager, process-list, sysinternals, process-monitoring
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Process Monitor

Free by Microsoft |
Windows

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and...

OS & Utilities security, process, process-monitoring
+1 more system-activity-monitor
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htop

Open Source by Hisham Muhammad |
Linux

htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. htop is an interactive top replacement that runs in the terminal.

OS & Utilities performance, memory, process-list, process-viewer
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System Explorer

Free by Mister Group |
Windows

System Explorer is an enhanced Taskmanager that provides detailed information about running processes, startup programs, IE add-ons (BHOs), drivers, services network connections, system resources and more. It...

OS & Utilities, Security & Privacy portable, analysis, system-information
+5 more system-monitor, process, taskmanager, trojan, process-viewer
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Windows Task Manager

Free by Microsoft |
Windows

Windows Task Manager is a task manager application included with Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that provides detailed information about computer performance and running applications,...

Office & Productivity, OS & Utilities task-management, task-manager, tasks, task-list
+6 more system-information, process-management, process-viewer, system-activity-monitor, taskmgr, taskman
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Process Lasso

Freemium by Bitsum Technologies |
Windows

Process Lasso is NOT yet another task manager. It is a process priority optimization and system automation utility. Priority optimization, affinity optimization, core optimization, automated rules, automated...

portable Process Lasso is available as Portable Edition too., performance, process-management, process
+9 more responsive, process-optimization, energy-saving, system-utility, stability, process-optimizer, process-priority, improve, system-automation
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AnVir Task Manager

Freemium by AnVir Software |
Windows

This tool controls programs, disk, CPU. Replace task manager, tweak and tune up XP or Vista. Speed up windows startup. Get rid of spyware and viruses.

OS & Utilities portable, monitoring, startup, services, taskmanager
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SpyStudio

Free* by Nektra |
Windows

SpyStudio is the best product to trace user-mode API calls on Windows. SpyStudio is an Application tracer which shows and interprets calls, displaying the results in a structured way which is easy for any IT...

OS & Utilities performance-testing, sysinternals
+8 more process-monitoring, api-monitoring, application-tracer, registry-monitoring, file-system-monitoring, tack-down-errors, driver-performance-validation, process-monitor
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Resource Monitor

Free by Microsoft |
Windows

Resource Monitor is a system application in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is used to view information about the use of hardware (CPU, memory, disk, and network) and software (file handles and...

OS & Utilities system-information, system-monitor
+1 more performance-monitoring
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Prio - Process Priority Saver

Free* by O&K |
Windows

Prio is a utility for saving the priority of applications and interface enhancements for the standard windows task Manager.

OS & Utilities task-manager, process-list
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nmon

Open Source |
Linux

This systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool gives you a huge amount of important performance information in one go. It can output the data in two ways

memory, administration, resources, nfs, file-systems
+2 more top-processes, micro-partition-information
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Atmonitor

Free by atPurpose Technologies |
Mac

Mac OS X System Monitor and Process Explorer Tool atMonitor is the most advanced monitoring tool for Mac OS X that displays system activity in real-time. It is designed to allow quick assessment of computers...

OS & Utilities task-list, process-list, activities
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Security Task Manager

Commercial |
Windows

Taskman that provides detailed information about programs and processes running on the computer (e.g. file name, directory path, description, security risk rating).

File Management, Security & Privacy file-management, antivirus, applications, spyware
+9 more driver, windows-xp, background, anti-spyware, services, dll, exe, worm, autostart
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KillSwitch

Free by Comodo |
Windows

KillSwitch is an advanced system monitoring tool that is apart of Comodo Cleaning Essentials (CCE) it allows users to identify, monitor and stop potentially unsafe processes that are running on endpoint...

OS & Utilities portable No installation required – can run direct from USB or user desktop via RDP, system-monitor, process-management
+5 more taskmanager, process-list, task-list-manager, task-killer, process-killer
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Daphne

Open Source by DRK Open Source Software |
Windows

Daphne is a small (system tray) application for killing, controlling and debugging Windows' processes. It was born to kill a windows process and became almost a task manager replacement. You can kill a...

OS & Utilities task-manager, process, process-list, kill
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MKN TaskExplorer

Free |
Windows

Free application MKN TaskExplorer is a Windows Task Manager replacement packed with options, system information, and pretty graphs. Weve highlighted tons of alternative task managers in the past, but...

OS & Utilities tasks, taskmanager, windows-utilities
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TaskInfo

Commercial by Igor Arsenin |
Windows

TaskInfo is a poweful utility that combines and improves features of Task Manager and System Information tools. It visually monitors (in text and graphical forms) different types of system information in any...

OS & Utilities task-manager, system-information, system-monitor
+2 more system-utility, system-activity-monitor
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PrcView

Free by Igor Nys |
Windows

PrcView is a process viewer utility that displays detailed information about processes running under Windows. For each process it displays memory, threads and module usage. For each DLL it shows full path and...

OS & Utilities security, process, process-list, process-viewer
+1 more process-killer
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Prism Hud

Free |
Windows

Prism HUD is a lightweight but detailed and accurate HUD (head-up display)-style system performance & resources monitor, which can help you know what and how well your system is performing always. Prism...

portable Runs in a folder, performance, widget, resources, resource
+10 more gadget, meter, low-memory-usage, hud, low-level, tiny, resource-monitor, res, low, meters
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Bill2's Process Manager

Free by Bill2 Software |
Windows

Bill2's Process Manager is more than a task manager: Simple and intuitive Automated management of the priority and affinity of processes via rules you create! Viewing the use of your CPU...

OS & Utilities portable, process-management, multi-language
+4 more taskmanager, process-optimization, process-manager, process-priority