

The Monitor tool can be used to check what a process is doing. Right-click on a process to set its priority, affinity, or to terminate, suspend or restart it. The Processes tab lists all running processes with their ID, Names, description, CPU and private byte usage. The columns can be customized from the right-click context menu. MiTec Task Manager DeLuxe's main interface lists the following nine tabs: Processes, Services, Sessions, Autoruns, Network, Disk I/O, GPU, Performance and System. The menu has an option to replace the Windows Task Manager with Task Manager DeLuxe, but I think it may be a better idea to pin the application to the taskbar and use it when required. The Desktop Explorer option opens a pop-up window with advanced information about the selected process. You can open a new task or open Windows Task Manager, Control Panel, Event Viewer, Local Group Policy Editor from this menu. You can also right-click on the tray icon to bring up the same options. The arrow icon next to it brings a drop-down menu into view.

The button with the computer icon in the top left corner is used to access Task Manager Deluxe's preferences. The drop-down menu is useful to display all processes, system processes, non-system ones, and those started by the currently logged-in user. You can find a process quickly by typing the name of a program's name in the filter box, sort the listing, or browse it manually. It features global memory usage and CPU usage indicators along with power mode (AC/battery) information. The other tools include a clock, network upload and download indicator, a process list that shows the network usage, memory load and CPU load of the top three applications. The disk read and write tool is the only one of the lot that doesn't display numerical values. There are some graphical indicators in the top right corner which display useful statistics at a glance. There is no toolbar or menu bar and it makes the interface of Task Manager DeLuxe quite easier to get used to than Process Explorer.
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#Microsofts process explorer archive#
TMX (as the archive is named) is a bit slow to start, but it is actually quite light on resources when it is running. It is a part of the developer's System Information Component Suite, but can be used as a standalone application.
#Microsofts process explorer portable#
MiTec Task Manager DeLuxe is a free portable program for Windows that you can try if you want an advanced Task Manager that is different from the two programs mentioned above.
