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Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer.

Key features of Process Hacker:

· A simple, customizable tree view with highlighting showing you the processes running on your computer.
· Detailed performance graphs.
· A complete list of services and full control over them (start, stop, pause, resume and delete).
· A list of network connections.
· Comprehensive information for all processes: full process performance history, thread listing and stacks with dbghelp symbols, token information, module and mapped file information, virtual memory map, environment variables, handles, ...
· Full control over all processes, even processes protected by rootkits or security software. Its kernel-mode driver has unique abilities which allows it to terminate, suspend and resume all processes and threads, including software like IceSword, avast! anti-virus, AVG Antivirus, COMODO Internet Security, etc. (just to name a few).
· Find hidden processes and terminate them. Process Hacker detects processes hidden by simple rootkits such as Hacker Defender and FU.
· Easy DLL injection and unloading - simply right-click a process and select "Inject DLL" to inject and right-click a module and select "Unload" to unload!
· Many more features...

Compared with Process Explorer, Process Hacker:

* Implements almost all of the functionality offered by Process Explorer, plus more advanced features.
* Has advanced string scanning capabilities, as well as regular expression filtering.
* Allows you to see what a thread is waiting on.
* Highlights both relocated and .NET DLLs.
* Allows you to connect to other sessions, just like Windows Task Manager can.
* Shows symbolic access masks (e.g. Read, Write), rather than just numbers (e.g. 0x12019f).
* Shows names for transaction manager objects and ETW registration objects.
* Shows detailed token information, as well as allowing privileges to be enabled and disabled.
* Shows information for POSIX processes.