System Explorer is an advanced Windows Task Manager replacement that comes both as a portable and installer version. While it does display all the relevant information that the task manager is displaying it extends the information that are displayed beyond that and provides additional functionality to the user.
The interface of System Explorer is tab driven. It displays various information like Tasks, Processes, Modules or Opened Files in the various tabs on the top of the software program. Each tab will list the designated information, the process tab will for instance list the process names, their dependencies, cpu usage, process id and memory usage.
One of the interesting options that System Explorer provides is the ability to display or request additional information about an entry. A right-click on an entry will open a context menu with options to display file information, query Internet databases like Process Library or checking the file with online virus scanners like Virus Total.
That’s interesting for users who want to check up on processes or modules running on their computer system.
Unlike Microsoft’s Task Manager System Explorer does provide additional information. It will for example list all open connections of a computer system including the applications responsible for the connection. It will furthermore display the opened files or a process history in its interface which provide additional valuable information to the user.
Another interesting option is the snapshot ability. Users can create system snapshots and compare them to previous snapshots that they have created. This can be interesting to compare before and after system states while installing or updating software programs.
System Explorer provides access to additional system related features next to the extensive system monitoring options. It will list autostart entries, software programs that are installed on the computer system and link to system utilities like computer management or group policy management.
The software program can be used to replace the Windows Task Manager. To do that select the “Replace Task Manager” option in the Options menu on top. System Explorer will open whenever the user starts the Task Manager from then on.
Resource usage of System Explorer is low, it uses less than 5 Megabytes of computer memory while running which is acceptable considering all the advanced features that it brings to the table.
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FYI: “Replace Task Manager” only works on 32bit systems :-(
A little bit of warning on Windows System Explorer. I use it regularly but sometimes it’s “silently” crashing.
I mean that WSE crashed and I didn’t noticed until I turned up the regular windows performance monitor. To my surprise, WSE was using 100% of one of my cores (quad core CPU) !
This is great. It puts a huge amount of troubleshooting functionality into one place, most of which is stuff I use.
It even has quite a few functions I haven’t found in other similar programs. Process history, for example…that’s great for finding out what process just ran and disappeared.
Downsides:
The interface is a little clunky — can’t auto-size a column by double clicking its resizer
Can’t search for open files like SysInternals Process Explorer can
Can’t show the command line for any given process, only image path (another Process Explorer function)
Makes you agree to license before running
Asks if you want it in the startup
It just froze up on me :(
Mark Russinovich already gave us Process Explorer. Nobody has ever created anything better.
system explorer doesn’t work with Windows 7 Ultimate or Professional!
please send what is the use of system explorer