PsList

Part of the PsTools suite for system administration and management, PsList provides a command-line application designed to display detailed information about running processes and threads. Aiming to combine the power and capabilities of the pmon and pstat tools in the Resource Kits, PsList is a sort of console-based task manager that only shows the process statistics.

Executing PsList with no arguments reveals the list of processes that are currently active on your Windows computer. You get to see the process name, their PID, priority, the number of threads, as well as the amount of private virtual memory assigned to each process. The CPU time and the elapsed time are also shown.

To see a list of all the available arguments for PsList, simply access the help with the “-h” command. You can see thread and memory-related details, as well as the entire process tree. PsList can be configured to reveal processes, memory information and thread statistics with a single command. Moreover, the process list can be filtered by name, if you are only looking to see information about a specific process.

But what makes PsList worth your while is its capability to view process and thread information on a remote computer. Remote login requires you to specify the login credentials (username and password).