Many a times you get frustrated when your system hangs or lingers on so slowly and the prime reason for this is that there are too many processes running and you don’t have enough control with Windows Task Manager. While in the midst of development or you’re about to finish with your Photoshop you seriously can not to afford to loose any data just because of the shitty hang process. What you could have done here? Probably free up some resources; atleast you won’t be needing many network related services that are eating up your resources. But how would you do it since Windows Task Manager isn’t the ultimate answer… as it doesn’t allow me to suspend or pause a particular process and then resume it when I am done with memory or CPU extensive work.
The good answer to such a problem is “Process Hacker” (download Process Hacker). Process Hacker open source feature-packed great tool for altering and manipulating processes and services on your computer. After succesfully setting up this tool you can terminate, suspend, resume, restart and prioritize processes. Processes are highlighted to provide additional information such as whether they are elevated or in a job.
Here are features that need appreciation:
- You can customize the tree view and sort the columns
- Get detailed performance graphs. While you take your mouse to any peak of the graph it show info for which process or service has created that peak and how much percent it has utilized of CPU and memory
- A complete list of Processes, Services and Network services giving ultimate control to terminate, start, stop, pause and resume them
- You can check performance of each individual process along with its thread listing and stacks with dbghelp symbols, token information, module and mapped file information, virtual memory map and environment variables
- You can find hidden processes running in the background and even kill them as well.
There are many more features that you can find on its website. Now I will take you through the screenshot tour of Process Hacker:
PS: Note that previously we posted on how to analyze svchost.exe with svchost process analyzer; this process hacker can be used as a better substitute since it has many features. Good luck with your procees killing 
