Are you experiencing Windows crashes or frequent hangings? If yes, then what you need is Process hacker.

What is the real deal about Process hacker?

When Windows crashes or experiences hanging, it is usually because a single process is not running properly. To see what the problem is, you simply open Process Hacker and see it all at once. It can show you information about processes, services, modules, handles, and more. It displays all your running processes and services, including network and disk processes, in color-coded tree views. This free open source ware has powerful process termination capabilities that bypass most security software and rootkits, ending the entire affected process.

It also has a powerful memory searching/editing capability. It can show you information about processes, services, modules, handles, and more. Its user-friendly interface displays a lot of useful information.  You can use it to search for and terminate hidden processes. ). It provides comprehensive information for all processes including full process performance history, threads listing and stacks with help symbols, token information, module and mapped file information, virtual memory map, environment variables, and handles.

Wj32, the author of this program has added the following new features to this version:  added “Icon click toggles visibility” option and fixed crash on CPUs without SSE2.

Downsides?

It is a worthy toolkit to have.

To know more about this program, please go to Process Hacker page on Sourceforge.

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