Portable Alternate Task Manager

The built-in task manager in Windows is more than the average user needs most of the times. Nevertheless, if you are looking for an alternative that could offer more information about running processes, then you can give Portable Alternate TaskManager a try.

As its name implies, Portable Alternate TaskManager is a special, install-free edition of Alternate TaskManager. Since no installation is required, the registry of the host system is not tampered with, and the application can be launched from any removable device. But as far as functionality is concerned, the portable edition is no different from the installer edition.

Thanks to the user-friendly interface, working with Portable Alternate TaskManager is easy. A complete list of processes that are running on the local system is displayed, along with the corresponding IDs, hexadecimal values, the name of the executable files, and the window caption and classname. Processes can be optionally filtered by PID.

Based on the PID number, Portable Alternate TaskManager can display detailed information about any process. You can check out the location of the executable file, the file size, and the allocated memory usage, including the size of the working size, paged and non-paged pool usage.

Aside from monitoring active processes, Portable Alternate TaskManager also gathers information about the entire system. It includes details about the operating system edition, owner and user, product ID, alongside the available physical and virtual memory. The memory usage can also be monitored in real-time using a simple graph.

Portable Alternate TaskManager is a viable option for anyone who is looking to replace the integrated Windows task manager. Certain features it offers are not found in the standard task manager but, on the other side, the latter does come with valuable functions that Portable Alternate TaskManager does not include (such as creating dump files, setting priority and affinity, online search, and more).