Process Explorer Alternatives

Process Explorer is described as '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' and is a leading process management tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Process Explorer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Process Explorer alternative is htop, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Process Explorer are System Informer, btop++, witr and Mission Center.

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  1. Resource Monitor is a system application in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is used to view information about the use of hardware (CPU, memory, disk, and network) and software (file handles and modules) resources in real time.

    56 Resource Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  2. Historical resource monitoring, powerful controls for managing troublesome apps, and detailed visibility into hidden behavior that impacts your PC’s performance, privacy, and security.

    30 AppControl for Windows alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  3. ytop icon
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    A TUI system monitor written in Rust. Contribute to cjbassi/ytop development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  4. KillSwitch icon
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    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&#39.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  5. Sysprof icon
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    Find and fix performance problems.

    49 Sysprof alternatives

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    • Linux
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  6. TaskInfo icon
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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.

    45 TaskInfo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. macmon icon
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    Get real-time Apple Silicon performance data without sudo, including CPU, GPU, RAM usage, power and temperature metrics, per-cluster utilization, RAM and swap stats, historical charts, color themes, and detailed system information directly via CLI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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  8. What's Running is a product that gives you an inside look into your Windows system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Sloth icon
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    Sloth is a Mac application that displays all open files and sockets in use by all running processes on your system. This makes it easy to inspect which apps are using which files and sockets.

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    • Mac
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