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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    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...

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

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  3. 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

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    • Linux
     
  4. 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

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    • Linux
     
  5. DBCTaskman icon
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    A windows 8-like Task Manager for Windows 7 ,work in progress!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  6. WhoLockMe icon
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    Have you ever bored by this Windows message : "Error Deleting File or Folder, ... There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use.", when you try to delete, move or rename a file?

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
  7. OpenedFilesView displays the list of all opened files on your system. For each opened file, additional information is displayed: handle value, read/write/delete access, file position, the process that opened the file, and more...

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  8. Pserv icon
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    pserv.cpl is a Windows Control Panel Applet that

    Allows you to -control all NT services and devices -uninstall applications -replace eventviewer -replace task manager -connect to remote machines.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  9. With ProcessScanner Uniblue takes the perspiration and guesswork out of researching the processes running on your PC. ProcessScanner not only generates a detailed list of the items already running on your PC, it then goes on to give you valuable information as to the programs...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  10. PrcView icon
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    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 version information.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. This program will tell you which programs are accessing your hard disk or using your CPU at any given moment. You will be able to determine why your hard drive is in use or what program is sucking up processor time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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