Looking for a nice process manager, if such a thing exists

Hi,

I'm after a nice process manager to sit on my second screen and show me what processes are currently running. I'm talking about something that I wouldn't mind having running all the time, so it mustn't look like a pig's rear end. Ideally it will have a way to terminate processes without having to start up the windows process manager, and ideally ideally it will be skinnable (but I know thats a longshot ).

I'm on XP Pro SP1.

Does anyone know if such a thing exists?

Also, I'll just add this question here because it's pretty stupid and doesn't deserve its own thread:

I just changed from an AXP 3000+ @333 with a volcano 11, to a A64 3700+ @400 with an akasa AK-913 heatpipe cooler. The 3000+ idled at around 42 degrees celsius, and the 3700+ idles at around 29. Is this normal? Do they run cooler or is the heatsink just that much better?

Process Viewer for Windows
http://www.teamcti.com/pview/prcview.htm

Sysinternals.net is the place to go for this sort of stuff.

Here are the best tools


http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Tokenmon.html
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/TcpView.html

I don't think you'll ever want to know any more about realtime activity on your system than that. In fact, ProcessExplorer is probably too verbose for your needs. I find TCPview particularly useful for finding out which ports to prioritize on my traffic shaper. (Seems like its hard to get the information on just which ports a lot of games use). The others tools have limited use for the non hacker sort.

Excellent stuff, thanks alot!

That site's going in my bookmarks.

Edit: My god, process explorer is incredible... Highlights new processes and can even replace task manager!