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Process Hacker is Task Manager on steroids
The inner geek in all of us is constantly curious about what exactly is going on under the hood of our computer; the trusty ol' Task Manager is usually pretty good at letting us keep an eye on things. Sometimes, however, said inner geek needs a little bit more control over their not-always-well-oiled machine.
Process Hacker is an open source application that incorporates all of Task Manager's features while adding a plethora of other functions, charts, and options. Included in Process Hacker's features are things such as a tree view to see where active processes came from, detailed graphs displaying each process's resource usage and statistics, and (my personal favorite) over a dozen different ways to kill a process.
Sysinternals fans may notice that Process Hacker is very similar to Mark Russinovich's Process Explorer utility. The two utilities trade off a few features; Process Explorer is a little more developer-oriented, where Process Hacker is geared somewhat more toward the average power user.
The download link on Process Hacker's home page is broken, but you can download it directly from their project page on SourceForge.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentskojo87Aug 25th 2009 5:50PM
i like it. Process Explorer was always a little too hardcore for me. this is going on all my Windows systems.
ClintonAug 25th 2009 8:43PM
looks good
FloAug 25th 2009 10:10PM
I like it alot also ^^
RyanAug 26th 2009 2:56AM
Instant BSOD in XP SP3, every time I tried to run it.
wj32Aug 26th 2009 5:51AM
Please use this release:
https://www.ohloh.net/p/processhacker/download?package=Process+Hacker
GerryAug 26th 2009 9:38AM
Will Process Hacker run as a portable application -- no changes to registry?
wj32Aug 27th 2009 2:30AM
It doesn't access the registry, but it does write to your AppData directory.
dorisceeSep 2nd 2009 8:15PM
Yesterday I replaced Process Explorer with ProcessHacker and at first I was not impressed. Yes, the setup looks very similar to Process Explorer (which I was no master of), but when I tried to find a process to terminate because it seemed to be locked for deletion, I couldn't see the program in the ProcessHacker interface. I was confused (it just could have been due to my lack of knowledge). Well anyway, today, I right-clicked on the taskbar icon - and that's the interface that I wanted to see! I clearly see what processes are running, and when I enabled notifications, I'm in control! That's all I need! I love it! Great for an anal-retentive computer user like me! btw, no problems for me with Winxp sp3.