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The most well-known startup item management tool from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite, showing all programs that auto-start with Windows -- covering 20+ startup points including logon items, services, scheduled tasks, browser plugins, drivers, codecs, known DLLs, and more.
A professional process management tool from Microsoft (Sysinternals suite) that displays all processes in a tree view showing parent-child relationships. Supports viewing handles/DLLs/thread stacks/network connections/GPU performance for each process. Most famous feature: finding which process is using a specific file.
The most powerful free process viewer and manager on Windows, far surpassing the built-in Task Manager. View complete thread/handle/network connection/GPU usage/DLL modules for each process. Supports force terminate, suspend, memory editing, and other advanced operations. Now renamed to System Informer.
Windows' built-in Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc), an all-in-one utility integrating process management, performance monitoring, startup management, and service management — Win10/11 versions are greatly enhanced with GPU monitoring, startup impact assessment, and full process tree viewing, sufficient for日常 system management.