Process Manager Lite

Process Manager Lite is an advanced tool designed as an alternative to Windows Task Manager. It shows all your current running processes and services, giving you the possibility to study their information and control them. The application contains a bunch of comprehensive settings for experienced PC users.

Prerequisites and interface

Before proceeding any further, you should know that it hasn't received updates for a very long time and doesn't work on newer Windows models. It gets quickly installed and requires .NET Framework to run, since it was developed with the aid of this platform.
Concerning the interface, Process Manager Lite has a normal window with a neatly structured layout, where all active processes and services are automatically scanned and displayed at startup, so you can get started by examining their information, such as the process name, type, ID, user, module name and usage, in addition to the current CPU and RAM consumption.

Manage processes and services

It's possible to mark processes as known or unknown, terminate them if they stop responding to commands, set the process affinity, view threads and dependencies, as well as find out the file corresponding to a selected process.
Moreover, you can examine log details with the app's activity, launch a program, file or URL and enter command-line arguments, disable notifications, modify the default refresh time for the processes and services, as well as set the process detection rate.

Evaluation and conclusion

All in all, Process Manager Lite comes equipped with advanced options for managing processes and services, and it should come in handy to many users. It had minimal impact on system performance in our evaluation and it's free for non-commercial use. Too bad that it hasn't been updated for such a long time that it doesn't run on later Windows editions anymore.