Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Open Source, Troubleshooting, Windows x64
Keep an eye on your system's vitals with Yet Another Process Monitor
by Lee Mathews Aug 4th 2009 at 10:00AM
Fans of the ribbon interface who want a full-featured alternative to task manager, check out Yet Another Process Monitor.
Apart from showing task manager-esque information about running processes, YAPM also provides details about Windows services and your network activity. The system information panel provides realtime monitoring of processor, memory, and disk activity. Service startup types can be managed, processor affinities specified, and there's a grayed-out option for limiting CPU usage that will likely be active in a future version.
Don't recognize a specific process (say, for example igfxpers.exe)? Highlight it and click the internet search button to be taken directly to Google's results for clarification. You can also put YAPM's Kung Fu to use monitoring remote machines on your network.
In all honesty, there's so much built in to YAPM that you really need to download it and give it a try - assuming you want a better system monitor.
YAPM is free, requires no installation, and open source to boot. I won't go so far as to call it completely portable (the .Net 2.0 framework is required), but I'm all for applications that don't make me click through a setup.Apart from showing task manager-esque information about running processes, YAPM also provides details about Windows services and your network activity. The system information panel provides realtime monitoring of processor, memory, and disk activity. Service startup types can be managed, processor affinities specified, and there's a grayed-out option for limiting CPU usage that will likely be active in a future version.
Don't recognize a specific process (say, for example igfxpers.exe)? Highlight it and click the internet search button to be taken directly to Google's results for clarification. You can also put YAPM's Kung Fu to use monitoring remote machines on your network.
In all honesty, there's so much built in to YAPM that you really need to download it and give it a try - assuming you want a better system monitor.
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Saint Seminole said 10:43AM on 8-04-2009
Looks pretty powerful, but I'm sticking to Free Extended Task Manager for now.
(For constant monitoring of system resources, Rainmeter is a good, low profile choice.)
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sitruc said 12:58PM on 8-04-2009
Are there any good programs out there for killing applications if they reach a specified limit and then perhaps relaunching it?
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Crazylink said 1:33PM on 8-04-2009
I'm pretty sure Daphne is able to do that.
Fred said 2:13PM on 8-04-2009
32bit only. Superfail.
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