Top 15 Process Explorer Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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 displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that it is in. The unique capabilities make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

1. Tasks Explorer

Tasks Explorer Tasks Explorer is a freeware opensource computer program providing functionality for collecting extended information about processes running in system in real time. Application Tasks Explorer was designed as alternative to Apple’s “Activity Monitor”, as information providing “Activity Monitor” does not correspond with the needs of software developers and advanced users.......

2. vtop

vtop vtop is a graphical command-line tool that uses unicode braille to chart CPU and memory usage. It can be easily extended.Command-line tools like “top” make it difficult to see CPU usage across multi-process applications (like Apache and Chrome), spikes over time, and memory usage.That’s why we created vtop.......

3. Xfce Task Manager

Xfce Task Manager Easy to use application for monitoring and controlling running processes written for Xfce .......

4. Free Extended Task Manager

Free Extended Task Manager The Extended Task Manager provides additional Windows process management features and information about disk activity and network port usage.......

5. DBCTaskman

DBCTaskman A windows 8-like Task Manager for Windows 7 ,work in progress!......

6. Glsof

Glsof Glsof is two separate utilities (Queries & FileMonitor) to the command line utility Lsof by Vic Abell. Both applications are written in Java. Another fundamental requirement is the command line Lsof that has to be installed on your system. Lsof is supported by most of the Unix/Linux systems including Mac......

7. AntiFreeze

AntiFreeze AntiFreeze offers a last recourse when you find your computer in a hung state. It will put to sleep all running programs except the most critical ones, giving you the opportunity to close down the programs which are causing problems.......

8. Process Scanner

Process Scanner With ProcessScanner Uniblue takes the perspiration and guesswork out of researching the processes running on your PC. ProcessScanner not only generates a detailed list of the items already running on your PC, it then goes on to give you valuable information as to the programs these are associated with. Furthermore......

9. TaskExplorer

TaskExplorer Explore all the tasks (processes) running on your Mac with TaskExplorer.Quickly see a task's signature status, loaded dylibs, open files, network connection, and much more!......

10. Processes

Processes https://www.oneperiodic.com/products/processes/ Processes is a power tool to help you monitor and control the processes running on your Mac. It provides both a wide overview of the activity on your system, while also allowing you to drill-down to the inner workings of each individual process.Features: Pause and resume apps and......

11. KillSwitch

KillSwitch KillSwitch is an advanced system monitoring tool that is apart of Comodo Cleaning Essentials (CCE) it allows users to identify, monitor and stop potentially unsafe processes that are running on endpoint systems. Uniquely for a product of its type, KillSwitch leverages Comodo's huge whitelist database to isolate untrusted processes with......

12. SpyStudio

SpyStudio SpyStudio is the best product to trace user-mode API calls on Windows. SpyStudio is an Application tracer which shows and interprets calls, displaying the results in a structured way which is easy for any IT professional to understand. SpyStudio can understand the resources that an application uses, track down errors,......

13. timelimit

timelimit timelimit executes a command and terminates the spawned process after a given time with a given signal. A “warning” signal is sent first, then, after a timeout, a “kill” signal, similar to the way init(8) operates on shutdown.......

14. perp

perp The perp package provides a set of daemons and utilities to reliably start, monitor, log, and control a collection of persistent processes.......

15. LXTask

LXTask LXTask is the standard task manager and system monitor of LXDE . It starts via Ctrl+Alt+Del and is extremely lightweight.......