Powerful Features

Everything you need to monitor, manage, and optimize your Windows system

Process Hacker provides comprehensive system monitoring and process management capabilities that go far beyond standard Windows tools. Discover the advanced features that make Process Hacker the ultimate Windows process monitor and system utility for developers, administrators, and power users.

Comprehensive System Monitoring Features

Process Hacker offers an extensive suite of features designed to give you complete control and visibility over your Windows system. As a powerful Windows process manager and system monitoring tool, Process Hacker provides capabilities that are essential for system administration, software development, and performance optimization.

Each feature in Process Hacker is designed with both usability and power in mind. Whether you're troubleshooting system issues, monitoring resource usage, managing services, or analyzing network activity, Process Hacker provides the tools you need. The following sections detail the comprehensive feature set that makes Process Hacker the preferred choice for Windows system management.

Process Inspection

Dive deep into every process running on your system. Process Hacker provides comprehensive process information that goes far beyond what Windows Task Manager offers.

The process inspection capabilities in Process Hacker allow you to examine every aspect of running processes on your Windows system. This feature is essential for developers debugging applications, system administrators troubleshooting issues, and security professionals analyzing system behavior. Unlike basic task managers, Process Hacker reveals the complete picture of what each process is doing.

Detailed Process Properties: View process ID, parent process, command line, working directory, and environment variables
Thread Analysis: Inspect all threads within a process, view thread states, CPU usage, and stack traces
Module Inspection: View all loaded DLLs and modules, their memory addresses, and file paths
Handle Management: View and manage all handles opened by a process, including files, registry keys, and synchronization objects
Memory Analysis: Examine process memory usage, virtual memory, working set, and private bytes
Advanced Filtering: Filter processes by name, CPU usage, memory consumption, or custom criteria

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System Monitoring

Real-time system resource monitoring with detailed graphs and statistics. Track CPU, memory, disk, and network activity across your entire system.

CPU Monitoring: Per-core CPU usage, process CPU time, and system-wide CPU graphs
Memory Tracking: Physical memory, virtual memory, page file usage, and memory pressure indicators
Disk I/O Monitoring: Track read/write operations, disk queue length, and I/O rates per process
Network Activity: Monitor network connections, bandwidth usage, and active ports per process
Historical Data: View resource usage trends over time with configurable graph intervals

Advanced Permissions & Control

Take full control of processes and services with advanced permission management. Process Hacker allows you to manage system resources safely and effectively.

Process Termination: Force terminate stubborn processes that won't close normally, with safety checks
Service Management: Start, stop, pause, and configure Windows services with detailed service properties
Priority Control: Adjust process priorities and CPU affinities for performance optimization
Security Context: View and modify process security tokens, privileges, and integrity levels
Handle Closing: Close specific handles opened by processes, useful for unlocking files or registry keys

Performance Insights

Resource Usage Analysis

Identify resource-intensive processes and bottlenecks with detailed performance metrics.

• CPU time and percentage usage
• Memory consumption trends
• I/O operation statistics
• Network bandwidth per process

Startup Impact

Analyze which programs impact system startup time and optimize boot performance.

• Startup program analysis
• Boot time impact measurement
• Service startup dependencies
• Optimization recommendations

Memory Leak Detection

Monitor processes for memory leaks and unusual memory growth patterns over time.

• Memory growth tracking
• Handle leak detection
• Virtual memory analysis
• Alert notifications

Network Monitoring

Track network connections, bandwidth usage, and identify suspicious network activity.

• Active connection monitoring
• Bandwidth usage per process
• Port and protocol information
• Connection state tracking

Plugin Support & Extensibility

Extend Process Hacker's functionality with plugins. The plugin system allows developers to add custom features, integrations, and tools.

Plugin Architecture: Well-documented plugin API for extending functionality
Custom Columns: Add custom data columns to process lists
Context Menu Extensions: Add custom actions to process context menus
Tool Integration: Integrate external tools and utilities
Community Plugins: Access plugins created by the community

Additional Features

Search & Filter

Powerful search and filtering capabilities to quickly find processes, services, and network connections.

Export & Reporting

Export process lists, system information, and performance data to various formats for analysis.

Customizable UI

Customize columns, colors, and layouts to match your workflow and preferences.

Process Tree View

Visual process tree showing parent-child relationships and process hierarchies.

Service Dependencies

View service dependencies and understand how services interact with each other.

Command Line Tools

Command-line interface for automation and scripting scenarios.

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