Process Explorer Alternatives

Process Explorer is described as '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, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information' and is a leading process monitoring tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Process Explorer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Process Explorer alternative is htop, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Process Explorer are System Informer, btop++, Mission Center and Resources.

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Process Explorer alternatives are mainly Process Management Tools, but if you're looking for Process Monitoring Tools or System Information Utilities you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac, Android and Linux. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Process Explorer.
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  1. ESET SysInspector is a free, state of the art diagnostic tool for Windows systems. It is also an integral part of ESET Smart Security 4 and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4. It peers into your operating system and captures details such as running processes, registry content, startup items...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. vtop icon
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    vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Ctop icon
     3 likes

    Top-like interface for container metrics. ctop provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers as well as a single container view for inspecting a specific container.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
     
  4. Yet Another (remote) Process Monitor (YAPM) is a powerful application that allows to view and manage your running tasks, processes, threads, modules...etc. and your services on a local or on a remote machine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. SpyStudio icon
     19 likes

    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 professional to understand.

    23 SpyStudio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. The Extended Task Manager provides additional Windows process management features and information about disk activity and network port usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Chameleon Task Manager is Windows task manager that enables the complete control of processes running on a computer optimizing the performance of Windows. It also provides more detailed information about programs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8.  2 likes

    Sudoless performance monitoring for Apple Silicon processors. CPU / GPU / RAM usage, power consumption & temperature.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
     
  9. iPulse icon
     5 likes

    Using its concise and appealing user interface, iPulse graphically displays the inner workings of OS X on your desktop, menu bar or Dock.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. LXTask icon
     5 likes

    LXTask is the standard task manager and system monitor of LXDE. It starts via Ctrl+Alt+Del and is extremely lightweight.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. ProcessActivityView creates a summary of all files and folders that the selected process tries to access. For each file that the process access, the following information is displayed: Number of times that the file was opened and closed, number of read/write calls, total number...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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