Process Hacker

2.39.124 Task manager alternative for Windows

Fernando Ortega

Software that provides advanced monitoring and management features for system processes and resources.

Free and open source process management software download, reviewed by Fernando Ortega

A very advanced process manager with tons of features.

Process Hacker isn't exactly the same as Windows Task Manager as it provides a few different options. It allows you to view and manipulate Windows services and processes running on the system.

It provides a variety of different options such as searching through running processes, viewing a variety of different options (such as performance, statistics, memory, modules, threads and more.)

It certainly is a more feature-packed alternative to Windows Process Manger and provides more information. You may view processes as a tree and change run-time variables by right-clicking on the process and view detailed information about the process by right-clicking and selection Properties.

Process Hacker isn't exactly a replacement for Process Manager but does provide some additional advanced options which may not necessarily be geared towards the novice user.

Process Hacker isn't too advanced but it definitely isn't basic and thus a little know-how is required.

Features of Process Hacker

  • Automation: Create automated tasks to perform specific actions when certain conditions are met.
  • Detailed information: View process and system information such as threads, handles, modules, windows and more.
  • Detailed memory analysis: See which processes are using the most memory and which components of a process are consuming the most memory.
  • File scanning: Scan running processes for potential malware.
  • Network monitoring: View all open network connections and their associated processes.
  • Network traffic: Monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic.
  • Plugins: Add custom functionality using the plugin system.
  • Process control: Terminate or suspend processes and start new ones.
  • Process priority control: Change the priority of running processes.
  • Process trees: View processes in a tree view to see parent/child relationships.
  • Search: Quickly search through processes and services.
  • Security: See what programs are running on your computer and which ones are connecting to the Internet.
  • System monitoring: View detailed information about processes, services, network connections and more.
  • System shutdown control: Control how the system shuts down in certain conditions.
  • View performance: See detailed performance graphs for processes, network connections and services.

Compatibility and License

Process Hacker is a free application released under the GPLv3 license on Windows from process management. With software released under the open source GPLv3 license, anybody can download, install, run and distribute the software with little in terms of restrictions. The latest version we have is 2.39.124 and is available to download here.

WJ32 accepts donations for the continued development of this free software.

What version of Windows can Process Hacker run on?

Process Hacker can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.


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Process Hacker has been picked by our editors as very good.
We have tested Process Hacker 2.39.124 against malware with several different programs. Please review the test results. We have not certified this program as clean. [Read more]