Process Hacker

Overview of Process Hacker (Manage running tasks on Windows)

Process Hacker is a free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Process Hacker is a new open source software used for the purpose of assisting users to view running applications, programs and services in detail and accurately, when downloading Process Hacker, users will approach with one of the software capable of replacing the Windows Task Manager.

Process Hacker has an intuitive user interface, with a clear division and displayed in the style of a directory tree, after scrolling down the details inside will be classified in different colors for users to see better. Process Hacker is a pretty good replacement for Windows' Task Manager, besides Process Hacker, there is also System Explorer and Process Explorer being used commonly today. If you want to manage the programs running on the system, display detailed information, or detect malware, Process Explorer can take care of this job.

Features of Process Hacker:

• 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.
• 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.
• Small, portable and no installation required.
• 100% Free Software (GPL v3).

KProcessHacker:

Process Hacker uses a kernel-mode driver, KProcessHacker, to assist with certain functionality. This includes:

• Capturing kernel-mode stack traces
• More efficiently enumerating process handles
• Retrieving names for file handles
• Retrieving names for EtwRegistration objects
• Setting handle attributes