Process Hacker
A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
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What is Process Hacker?
Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer.
A free and open source process viewer with powerful process termination and memory searching/editing capabilities.
Key features of Process Hacker:
• A simple, customizable tree view with highlighting showing you the processes running on your computer.
• Detailed system statistics with graphs.
• Advanced features not found in other programs, such as detaching from debuggers, viewing GDI handles, viewing heaps, injecting and unloading DLLs, and more.
• Powerful process termination that bypasses security software and rootkits.
• View, edit and control services, including those not shown by the Services console.
• View and close network connections.
• Starts up almost instantly, unlike other programs.
A free and open source process viewer with powerful process termination and memory searching/editing capabilities.
Key features of Process Hacker:
• A simple, customizable tree view with highlighting showing you the processes running on your computer.
• Detailed system statistics with graphs.
• Advanced features not found in other programs, such as detaching from debuggers, viewing GDI handles, viewing heaps, injecting and unloading DLLs, and more.
• Powerful process termination that bypasses security software and rootkits.
• View, edit and control services, including those not shown by the Services console.
• View and close network connections.
• Starts up almost instantly, unlike other programs.
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Network & Admin • OS & UtilitiesTags
- process-management
- run-as-system
- view-open-file-handles
- show-open-ports
- process-viewer
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Summary
Our users have written 9 comments and reviews about Process Hacker, and it has gotten 284 likes
- Developed by wj32
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 4.6
- 47 alternatives listed
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View allProcess Hacker was added to AlternativeTo by l3x0r on Feb 25, 2010 and this page was last updated Oct 22, 2021.
Recent user activities on Process Hacker
- l3x0r added Process Hacker as alternative(s) to SystemExplorerabout 19 hours ago
- Bug01 liked Process Hackerabout 1 month ago
- tigerkingzak liked Process Hackertiabout 2 months ago
It's the best task manager I've seen so far, first it's true that I don't use all features, but the one that help me a lot is the "threads" tab, when looking at a process/service properties.
Really useful because you can see what DLL do what, how much resources it eat (like the one that contain windows update search "wuaueng.dll" that eat a lot of CPU sometimes, I just suspend it some minutes when starting update, and resume it to have an ultra fast update ^3^).
After this, there's a lot of info, the little tray icons that show a popup displaying CPU, GPU, RAM, Network, Disk, I/O,… they can be all displayed at the same time too, with little graphs !
There's a lot more, like the multi-tests to close a process, saving priority of each process (but only work if process hacker is running), displaying a lot of data in columns, displaying graphs… there's really a lot !
But the biggest issue… like process explorer if your computer run high, like playing a game or using a game engine, photoshop, or any software that need some RES, it'll crash… (well a lot of times it crash when I open the explorer.exe or do some lowly tasks and my CPU is low…).
Hope to see a really stable version, or an alternative that's as good as this one !
Better than Process Explorer because it's open source and shows the total memory used by Chrome.
Cool program, gives you all the information you want to know about your processes.
The program isn't discontinued. It's still getting releases, but only on the nightly channel
Process Hacker is the bomb, it doesn't really compare to ProcExplorer (different purpose).
The Multi-Line High CPU% popup list when hovering over the Tray icon is such a useful feature.
I have learnt a great deal about complex software issues on my system thanks to this free utility.