Process hacker or process monitor for free#

Run the process for a separate user, determine the I/O priority or completely detach it from the debugger.

Changing the affinity controls – determining which CPU threads are allowed to execute the process.

Bring the application window to front, minimize, maximize or restore it.

Terminate the active process or the whole process tree.

Changing the process priority – high, normal, low, real-time, above normal, below normal and idle.

Right clicking a process gives you some useful options – Here is how it looks like:Īll the running process are listed in the process tab in a tree view – thus listing all the sub processes in hierarchical manner. Then double-click the ProcessHacker.exe file to launch the Process Hacker task management window. Once you have downloaded the package, extract it and open the X86 or X64 folder – this depends on the ID of your operating system. There are more features too, if you are a power user and want more control on how the running processes are handled, how much memory is allocated to each program and other parameters.

Bypass different forms of process protection.

Use different methods to terminate running processes.

View process heaps, DEP status and other environment variables.

More control on the affinity and priority of a process.

Restart a particular process, without ending it and running it manually from command prompt or from “New Task”.

View a hierarchical tree view of running processes – not present in Windows task manager.

Some of the important features are listed below:

Process hacker provides some unique features which are not present in the default Windows task manager. Why use another Task Management Program ? The best part of the application is that it’s portable and thus can be used from a removable drive on multiple computers without installation.

Process hacker or process monitor for free#

There are tons of task management apps available for free but Process Hacker seems to be the most feature rich and popular among PC users.