AllThreadsView

While both are units of executions, threads and processes are essentially different concepts. A process that runs on Windows can have one or more threads, which are different execution sequences running in a shared memory space. In turn, processes run in separate memory spaces and are created by an application or by the operating system itself.

Windows comes with a process monitoring tool - the Task Manager. However, there is no way to see the threads that are being created by each process unless a third-party application is used. AllThreadsView can carry out this task.

AllThreadsView extracts information from the system, revealing a list of all the active threads from all the processes in Windows, regardless of the application they belong to. All this data is displayed in a single table, where users can view the thread ID, the creation, the kernel, and the user time and, based on these timestamps, the duration of existence of each thread.

The start address is also shown, along with the priority of each thread, and the context switch count and the context switch change from the last restart. If a thread's execution is temporarily suspended, the wait reason is displayed in the dedicated column. Last but not least, the ID and the path of the process that a thread belongs to are also available.

Clicking on a column's name of AllThreadsView sorts all the data in the table by that particular criteria. Unfortunately, there is no way to filter the data shown in the table. For instance, it's not possible to exclude system processes from the list.

AllThreadsView also features reporting options, allowing users to save the selected rows in the table as a text file. Alternatively, they can generate more comprehensive HTML reports containing either all or just some of the rows.

AllThreadsView makes it possible for users to see the threads that run under the same process, which is not possible in Windows without using a dedicated application. It could come in handy to those who want to check whether their program's execution is performed as expected.