# DavidXanatos/TaskExplorer

Power full Task Manager

Repository: https://github.com/DavidXanatos/TaskExplorer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/taskexplorer
Homepage: https://xanasoft.com/
Language: C
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-07-26T18:49:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 70, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2651, "days_push": 38, "days_rel": 123, "gap_med": 44.0, "n_releases_24m": 11}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3739, forks 296 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:15.911304+00:00)

## What it is
Task Explorer is a powerful task manager for Windows and Linux that provides deep real-time insight into running processes, including thread stack traces, memory editing, handles, sockets, and loaded modules. It presents detailed per-process information in accessible panels with live data refresh and system resource graphs.

## Use cases
- inspect why a process is hanging or deadlocked via thread stack traces
- view and edit a process's memory with string search
- see which files and sockets a program has open
- monitor CPU, disk, network, and GPU usage in real time
- list loaded DLLs and unload or inject DLLs
- manage system services and drivers
- find an alternative to Process Explorer or Process Hacker

## When to choose
- you need deeper per-process detail than the built-in Task Manager provides
- you are debugging deadlocks, bottlenecks, or suspicious process behavior on Windows or Linux
- you want a free, open-source Sysinternals-style process inspector

## When to avoid
- you only need a simple task list to kill unresponsive apps
- you need remote or fleet-wide monitoring rather than local inspection
- you require a headless or scriptable monitoring solution

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, developer-tools, gui
- domain: developer-tools, operating-systems, performance
- platform: windows, cpp, cross-platform
- tags: task-manager, process-explorer, system-monitoring, debugging, sysinternals-alternative, linux

## Member repositories
- DavidXanatos/TaskExplorer (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.911304+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:29:08.029741+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/DavidXanatos/TaskExplorer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.911304+00:00, sha 942e827fd391)
  - homepage: https://xanasoft.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:23:29.027080+00:00, sha 295bde351da7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.