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, Mission Center, btop and Resources.

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  1. Monitorets icon
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    Monitorets is a small utility application offering a simple and quick view at the usage of several of your computer resources. Almost like an applet or a widget for your Linux desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  2. Daphne icon
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    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 process by dragging the mouse over the windows, by right-clicking the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    This program shows a list of all running processes of the current system, which may be refreshed by a customizable interval.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Alternate Task Manager is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Process Explorer.

    • Alternate Task Manager is Free and ProprietaryProcess Explorer is also Free and Proprietary
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    Remote Process Explorer - short RPE - is a small tool for all the admins outside with the need to manage clients immediately within one or more domains. With RPE the admin is able to view all the running processes on a client and of course kill them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. XRG icon
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    XRG is an open source system monitor for Mac OS X. XRG allows you to monitor CPU activity, memory usage, battery status, machine temperature, network activity, disk I/O, current weather, and stock market data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    SterJo Task Manager is a FREE and advanced utility for process managing which allows you to get details on everything that’s running on your computer. The program is divided in several sections covering the main parts of each system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Security Process Explorer

    Give you detailed information about each and every process.

    Indicate whether a process is safe or not.

    Allow you to terminate process with a single click.

    Let you block any unwanted processes or malware.

    Simpl.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Python System Monitor (Psymon) is a cross-platform, task and performance monitor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Loading icon
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    Your iPad and iPhone show you when apps are using your network. So why can't your Mac? Sure, there's always the Network section in Activity Monitor, but that's far from ideal. At best you can group by All Processes, Hierarchically, sort by Rcvd Bytes, and check the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Kiwi application monitor is a small program which lets you monitor your applications/processes, Windows and User activity...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Linproman icon
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    Process manager for Linux desktop environments, able to show process- and system-details and also run scripts on combineable process- and systemevents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. PSmisc icon
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    This PSmisc package is a set of some small useful utilities that use the proc filesystem. We're not about changing the world, but providing the system administrator with some help in common tasks. There is options for using SELinux if you need it and fuser understands IPv6.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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