Process Hacker

Process Hacker is a free Windows utility which displays detailed performance information, process information and memory usage. With Process Hacker you can identify where system resources are located, which programs consume the most resources and detect malware.

Compared with Process Explorer, Process Hacker:

• Implements almost all of the functionality offered by Process Explorer, plus more advanced features.
• Has advanced string scanning capabilities, as well as regular expression filtering.
• Allows you to see what a thread is waiting on.
• Highlights relocated and .NET DLLs.
• Allows you to connect to other sessions, just like Windows Task Manager can.
• Shows symbolic access masks (e.g. Read, Write), rather than just numbers (e.g. 0x12019f).
• Shows names for transaction manager objects and ETW registration objects.
• Shows detailed token information, as well as allowing privileges to be enabled and disabled.
• Shows information for POSIX processes.
• Starts around 5 times faster than Process Explorer.
• Has around 8 times less background CPU usage.