System Informer
A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Official successor to Process Hacker.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- I/O Monitoring
- Disk Monitoring
- Process Monitoring
- CPU Monitoring
- Ad-free
- Performance Monitoring
- Dark Mode
- Portable
- No registration required
- Website Monitoring
- No Tracking
- Integrated Virus scanner
System Informer News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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What is System Informer?
System Informer is the official successor to Process Hacker and was originally created in 2008 by Wen Jia Liu as an open source alternative to programs such as Windows Task Manager and Process Explorer.
Features: • A detailed overview of system activity with highlighting. • Graphs and statistics allow you quickly to track down resource hogs and runaway processes. • Can't edit or delete a file? Discover which processes are using that file. • Powerful process termination that bypasses security software and rootkits. • See what programs have active network connections, and close them if necessary. • Get real-time information on disk access. • View detailed stack traces with kernel-mode, WOW64 and .NET support. • Go beyond services.msc: create, edit and control services. • Advanced features - such as, detaching from debuggers, viewing GDI handles, viewing heaps, injecting and unloading DLLs, and more. • Small, fast and portable.
System Informer information
Developed by
Winsider Seminars & Solutions, Inc. Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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Comments and Reviews
I like System Informer more than Process Explorer by Sysinternals because it is open source. You can manually use it to check for viruses among running processes, while Process Explorer makes it automatically.
Why "System Informer"(ex Process Hacker) better for me than "Process Explorer": Support multi-select for process list. So you can kill or suspend many processes at once. Can collapse child processes to a single line, calculate total CPU/RAM usage and remember this for the future. Can open file location, show service name in the context menu for processes. Can hide system processes. Have a services tab. Where you can search and manage services. You can jump from service to process also. Looks like not fully working in the current version though.
Only little a bit of missing button "Process Tree" from "Process Explorer" in the toolbar. Saves 2 clicks xD
Is the same GitHub link (and program) named Process Hacker (https://alternativeto.net/software/process-hacker/about/), be carefull, its a risky app.
Whats the problem about it?
System Informer is Process Hacker, albeit a newer version with a signed driver. Same programmer and everything, thus no more risky than the original. (https://github.com/winsiderss/systeminformer/issues/1253)