System Explorer 5.8

System Explorer is a powerful system monitor that allows you to have in-depth information about your system performance.

You can use this tool to know the status of tasks, processes, opened files, services, drivers, etc., currently running or open on your system. The program can be configured to replace Windows' standard Task Manager, which might be very helpful to you, especially if you are an advanced user.

The program's user interface can be toggled between two modes - Explorer and Task Manager. The Task Manager mode offers you a horizontal tabbed view where you can select the sections of your system whose information you would like to see. By default, the included sections in this mode are Tasks, Processes, Performance, and History. The Explorer mode, on the other hand, provides you with access to all the sections included in the program, listed on a vertical panel. Therefore, I would say that this is the mode that I find more appropriate for advanced users and system administrators.

Besides monitoring and managing your tasks, processes, and open files, you can also use System Explorer to display statistics about your system resources usage and your network bandwidth usage. For example, you can use this program to know the relationships among your running processes, or to know what files are currently opened and what processes opened them. The program also keeps a detailed history of all your system's activities, so that you can know the exact time at which a new process was created or a new TCP/IP connection opened.

A very important and helpful feature about System Explorer is that its developers keep an online database of dangerous or suspicious processes. You can run an analysis at any moment, and the program will warn you immediately if a suspicious process is detected on your system. In other words, System Explorer is capable of detecting hidden viruses or rootkits present in your system, even if your antivirus tool overlooked them for whatever reasons.

In a nutshell, System Explorer is a powerful and comprehensive tool that allows you to keep total control over your system's internals, and that can even act as an anti-virus and an anti-rootkit tool. Besides, this great software tool is completely free. Therefore, I would recommend it 100% to any Windows user, and especially to advanced ones.