Process Hacker is a free and open source process viewer and memory editor with unique features such as powerful process termination. It can show services, processes and their threads, modules, handles and memory regions.
Key features of Process Hacker:
- A simple, customizable tree view with highlighting showing you the processes running on your computer.
- Detailed system statistics with graphs.
- Advanced features not found in other programs, such as detaching from debuggers, viewing GDI handles, viewing heaps, injecting and unloading DLLs, and more.
- Powerful process termination that bypasses security software and rootkits.
- View, edit and control services, including those not shown by the Services console.
- View and close network connections.
- Starts up almost instantly, unlike other programs.
- Many more features...
Compared with Process Explorer, Process Hacker:
- Implements almost all of the functionality offered by Process Explorer, plus more advanced features.
- Performs stack traces correctly for .NET programs on x64.
- Allows you to see what a thread is waiting on.
- Has advanced string scanning capabilities, as well as regular expression filtering.
- Highlights both relocated and .NET DLLs.
- 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.
Process Hacker 2.37 changes:
Highlights
- Updated for Windows 10
- The "Include CPU (and other) usage of children in collapsed processes" option now aggregates memory and I/O statistics
- Added regex search to "Find Handles or DLLs"
- Added process exit codes to log
- Fixed crash that occurred under some conditions when processes terminated
Other changes
- Added warning when trying to search for handles when the system has too many handles open
- Upgraded to PCRE2
- Updated DotNetTools plugin:
- Rewrite of .NET Performance statistics and AppDomain enumeration
- Updated OnlineChecks plugin:
- Fixed virusscan.jotti.org uploader
- Updated NetAdapters plugin:
- Added adapter details window
- Updated ToolStatus plugin:
- Added CPU, Memory and I/O graphs to the toolbar (not enabled by default)
- Added toolbar and status bar customization, as well as a new theme
- Added option to auto-hide the main menu
- Updated UserNotes plugin:
- Added individual process highlighting support
Download: Process Hacker 2.37 | 2.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Portable Process Hacker 2.37 | 3.0 MB
Links: Process Hacker Home Page | Support