Copernic Reporter Posted November 2, 2010 Reporter Share Posted November 2, 2010 Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer. 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. * 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. An almost complete feature list for Process Hacker 2: General * View detailed system information and performance graphs * Configure Process Hacker to alert you when new processes are started, services are created, and other events Processes * View processes in a tree view with highlighting * View detailed process statistics and performance graphs * Process tooltips are detailed and show context-specific information * Select multiple processes and terminate, suspend or resume them * (32-bit only) Bypass almost all forms of process protection * Restart processes * Empty the working set of processes * Set affinity, priority and virtualization * Create process dumps * Use over a dozen methods to terminate processes * Detach processes from debuggers * View process heaps * View GDI handles * Inject DLLs * View DEP status, and even enable/disable DEP * View environment variables * View and edit process security descriptors * View image properties such as imports and exports Threads * View thread start addresses and stacks with symbols * Threads are highlighted if suspended, or are GUI threads * Select multiple threads and terminate, suspend or resume them * Force terminate threads * View TEB addresses and view TEB contents * (32-bit only) Find out what a thread is doing, and what objects it is waiting on * View and edit thread security descriptors Tokens * View full token details, including user, owner, primary group, session ID, elevation status, and more * View token groups * View privileges and even enable, disable or remove them * View and edit token security descriptors Modules * View modules and mapped files in one list * Unload DLLs * View file properties and open them in Windows Explorer Memory * View a virtual memory list * Read and modify memory using a hex editor * Dump memory to a file * Free or decommit memory * Scan for strings Handles * View process handles, complete with highlighting for attributes * Search for handles (and DLLs and mapped files) * Close handles * (32-bit only) Set handle attributes - Protected and Inherit * Granted access of handles can be viewed symbolically instead of plain hex numbers * View detailed object properties when supported * View and edit object security descriptors Services * View a list of all services * Create services * Start, stop, pause, continue or delete services * Edit service properties * View and edit service security descriptors Network * View a list of network connections * Close network connections 2010-11-02 Process Hacker 2.8 released New / Improved * Better service list (including column selection) * Added Peak Handles * Process tree sorting is now preserved * Save works for services and network connections * Pausing now works correctly with the Network tab * Added option to display inclusive CPU usages for collapsed processes * Added CLR tab to peview * Added ability to destroy heaps * Improved process tree list appearance * Certain command line parameters are now propagated Fixed * Icon handling bugs * Memory leaks * Extended tooltips for WOW64 processes Download Process Hacker 2.8 Home Page Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/950266-process-hacker-28/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgevella Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Interesting piece of software. I have been using Process Explorer for while now. I will try this out. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/950266-process-hacker-28/#findComment-593330066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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