What's Running Alternatives

What's Running is described as 'Product that gives you an inside look into your Windows system' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to What's Running for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Mac and BSD apps. The best What's Running alternative is Process Explorer, which is free. Other great apps like What's Running are Process Monitor, Task Manager, appstat and BPYTOP.

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  1. Process Explorer icon

    Process Explorer

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    Process Explorer 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...

    74 Process Explorer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    • Process Explorer is the most popular Windows alternative to What's Running.

    • Process Explorer is the most popular free alternative to What's Running.

    • Process Explorer is Free and ProprietaryWhat's Running is also Free and Proprietary
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    Process Monitor

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    Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and...

    55 Process Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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    Task Manager

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    Windows Task Manager is a task manager application included with Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that provides detailed information about computer performance and running applications, processes and CPU usage, commit charge and memory information, network...

    70 Task Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    appstat

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    Real-time monitoring of CPU, memory, disk, and thread metrics for running applications without workflow interruptions. Identify resource bottlenecks, memory leaks, and performance spikes. Freeware with no registration required, featuring dark/light modes, always-on-top option, and exportable logs for team analysis.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    BPYTOP

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    Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

    Python port of bashtop.

    11 BPYTOP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    • BPYTOP is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to What's Running.

    • BPYTOP is the most popular Open Source alternative to What's Running.

    • BPYTOP is Free and Open SourceWhat's Running is Free and Proprietary
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    Pachtop

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    Pachtop is a lightweight, performant, and opensource system monitor that provides real-time monitoring of your system's performance, application monitoring, and detailed system information. Built with Rust and Tauri

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    Dashboard Real-time Metrics The dashboard shows real-time metrics of your system. Metrics include CPU usage, RAM usage, Swap usage, Disk usage, and Network usage.
     
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    Ctop

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    Top-like interface for container metrics. ctop provides a concise and condensed overview of real-time metrics for multiple containers as well as a single container view for inspecting a specific container.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Docker
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    Samsung My Files

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    "My Files" manages all the files on your smartphone, just like a file explorer on your computer.

    138 Samsung My Files alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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    My Files is a Filemanager, so no alternative to...

    Whats Running identifies Apps and Services running in Background, it's more like a Taskmanager!

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    • Samsung My Files is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to What's Running.

    • Samsung My Files is Free and ProprietaryWhat's Running is also Free and Proprietary
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    TaskInfo

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    TaskInfo is a poweful utility that combines and improves features of Task Manager and System Information tools. It visually monitors (in text and graphical forms) different types of system information in any Windows system (95, 98, ME, NT 4.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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