Top 15 What's My Computer Doing? Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

This program will tell you which programs are accessing your hard disk or using your CPU at any given moment. You will be able to determine why your hard drive is in use or what program is sucking up processor time.

1. Xfce Task Manager

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

2. htop

htop htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. htop is an interactive top replacement that runs in the terminal.Comparison between htop and top* In 'htop' you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes......

3. LXTask

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

4. 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.......

5. DBCTaskman

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

6. 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.......

7. Process Hacker

Process Hacker Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer. A free and open source process viewer with powerful process termination and memory searching/editing capabilities.Key features of Process Hacker: • A simple, customizable tree view with highlighting showing you the processes running on your computer. •......

8. px

px px tells you what processes are running on your system and how they are interconnected.It replaces:* ps, but with sensible defaults. If you just do "px" you'll get a ps-like output but with the most interesting processes last.* pgrep. Running "px root" lists only root's processes, running "px java" lists......

9. Remote Process Explorer

Remote Process Explorer Remote Process Explorer is a powerful tool for managing, monitoring and analyzing processes on a local or remote computer. You can use Remote Process Explorer not only to get the list of processes running on a remote or local computer, but also to run a new a process, kill it......

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. 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......

12. PrcView

PrcView PrcView is a process viewer utility that displays detailed information about processes running under Windows. For each process it displays memory, threads and module usage. For each DLL it shows full path and version information. PrcView comes with a command line version that allows you to write scripts to check......

13. 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......

14. Security Task Manager

Security Task Manager Security Task Manager shows comprehensible information about programs and processes running on the computer. For each Windows process, it improves on Windows Task Manager, providing: unique security risk rating The security risk rating indicates the likelihood of a process being potential spyware, malware or a Trojan. The rating is purely......

15. Process Explorer

Process Explorer 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......