Process Hacker is an open-source alternative to the popular Task Manager integrated in Windows. It includes various tools that can help you terminate processes, edit or view memory addresses, as well as run applications and create new services. Additionally, it comes with a generous number of plugins that were created by the developers for purposes like network monitoring, handling sandboxing processes, etc. The program runs on both 32- and 64-bit systems and is supported by all Windows versions (including Windows 8).
Although, I was quite impressed by the functionality of this program, I consider that it should be used only by users with advanced PC knowledge. It should be mentioned that beginners might find the program quite difficult to use. Also, there is the possibility to cause your system to malfunction if you make wrong changes in the process list.
This version of Process Hacker comes with improvements like the ability to save process priority, as well as to terminate processes on 32-bit Windows 8. Also, minor modifications were performed on its graphical user interface.
In my opinion, Process Hacker has all it takes to become your default “task manager”. It even offers you this option when you first run it.
v2.29.0.5220 [Aug 26, 2011]
2.28
* NEW/IMPROVED:
* peview now resolves .lnk targets
* Fixed Ctrl+A for processes, services and network connections and
added Ctrl+A for other windows
* Changed confirmation prompts to select the destructive action by
default
* Updated DotNetTools plugin:
* Fixed inaccurate stack traces for certain .NET programs
* Updated ExtendedTools plugin:
* Fixed network graph scaling
* Updated ToolStatus plugin:
* Added search box
* Updated Updater plugin
* FIXED:
* Fixed Verification Status column sorting bug in module list
* Fixed rare System Information crash
* Fixed bug in opening process handles
* Fixed freezing when viewing stack traces of certain system threads
