System Informer icon
System Informer icon

System Informer

 36 likes

A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Official successor to Process Hacker.

Main window - Processes Tab

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Windows
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (9)
36 likes
3comments
0 news articles

Features

Suggest and vote on features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  I/O Monitoring
  2.  Disk Monitoring
  3.  Process Monitoring
  4.  CPU Monitoring
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Performance Monitoring
  7.  Portable
  8.  Dark Mode
  9.  No registration required
  10.  Website Monitoring
  11.  No Tracking
  12.  Integrated Virus scanner

System Informer News & Activities

Highlights All activities

Recent News

No news, maybe you know any news worth sharing?
Share a News Tip

Recent activities

Show all activities

System Informer information

AlternativeTo Categories

Network & AdminOS & UtilitiesSystem & Hardware

GitHub repository

  •  11,518 Stars
  •  1,441 Forks
  •  208 Open Issues
  •   Updated Mar 14, 2025 
View on GitHub

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about System Informer, and it has gotten 36 likes

System Informer was added to AlternativeTo by Tarek Hasan on Dec 12, 2022 and this page was last updated Dec 12, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
 Post comment/review
WeiHua Liu
  
Top positive commentNov 9, 2023

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.

0
Anonym
  
Positive commentSep 27, 2023

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

0
Marco Colonna
  
Negative commentFeb 4, 2023

Is the same GitHub link (and program) named Process Hacker (https://alternativeto.net/software/process-hacker/about/), be carefull, its a risky app.

2 replies
skapytek123

Whats the problem about it?

Reply written May 19, 2023

If this reply contains spam or other abuse, notify admins about it.
naarcissus

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)

Reply written Sep 4, 2023

If this reply contains spam or other abuse, notify admins about it.
-6

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.

Official Links