Process Info Monitor

Everything running on your computer has an active corresponding process or service. Even Windows activates and lets you manage some of its own processes, and you can do this in the Task Manager. In this regard, Process Info Monitor comes as a powerful tool with which to keep an eye on a selection of processes and log all related activities.

One of its major advantages is the lack of a setup process, so you can use it as a personal process monitor on other computers besides your own, directly from a thumb drive. This doesn't leave any traces on the target PC, mostly because registry entries are left intact. However, you need to be sure that .NET Framework is already on the computer you decide to use it on.

The application comes with an intuitive environment, making it easy for both beginners and experienced individuals to quickly get the hang of things. The canvas is initially blank, with a table layout used to display all processes you monitor with column headers for name, ID, priority, private memory size, threads, handle, working set, virtual memory size, and more.

In case you know exactly where corresponding files of the processes you want to monitor are located, you can load the source directory. The process starts immediately after the item is added to the list. The default refresh interval is one second, but this can easily be adjusted from a dedicated field.

Note that the application automatically saves log files for all items on the list, with a file created for each one. The resulting files come under the CSV format, and you find them in the application's source directory by default. You're free to pick a different save location, but aren't able to change the output file type.

Bottom line is that Process Info Monitor manages to live up to expectation, even though it doesn't provide any controls over running processes. It shows a great amount of details for almost all existing system and third-party processes, letting you pick the ones you monitor, and the location to save files.