The Best 16 Microsoft Spy++ Alternatives

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    htop

    htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. htop is an interactive top replacement that runs in the terminal.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • SystemExplorer

    System Explorer is an enhanced Taskmanager that provides detailed information about running processes, startup programs, IE add-ons (BHOs), drivers, services network connections, system resources and more.

    Free Windows

  • Window Detective

    Window Detective is a programmer's tool used to "spy" on an application's windows and allows you to view and even modify some of its properties.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • WinSpy++

    WinSpy++ is a handy programmer's utility which can be used to select and view the properties of any window in the system. WinSpy is based around the...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Winspector Spy

    Have you ever used Spy++ that comes with MSVC? If you have then you know what Winspector is - but take out all of the annoyances of Spy++ and add in a big bag of handy...

    Free Windows

  • WinCheat

    WinCheat is like Spy++ in that it lets you dig deep into the internals of the PE format and the Win32 Windowing subsystems.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Chameleon Task Manager

    Chameleon Task Manager is Windows task manager that enables the complete control of processes running on a computer optimizing the performance of Windows. It also...

    Freemium Windows

  • Pserv

    pserv.cpl is a Windows Control Panel Applet that Allows you to -control all NT services and devices -uninstall applications -replace eventviewer -replace task...

    Free Windows

  • TaskInfo

    TaskInfo is a poweful utility that combines and improves features of Task Manager and System Information tools.

    Commercial Windows

  • Free Extended Task Manager

    The Extended Task Manager provides additional Windows process management features and information about disk activity and network port usage.

    Free Windows

  • Python System Monitor

    Python System Monitor (Psymon) is a cross-platform, task and performance monitor. Features: Global processes monitoring. System load history (cpu,memory,network and disks). Disks informations. Network connections.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Processes

    https://www.oneperiodic.com/products/processes/ Processes is a power tool to help you monitor and control the processes running on your Mac. It provides both a wide...

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • WinID

    WinID is controls & windows identification utility that is both powerful and compact. Its main purpose is to give an easy way to retrieve information about Microsoft...

    Free Personal Windows

  • Tasks Explorer

    Tasks Explorer is a freeware opensource computer program providing functionality for collecting extended information about processes running in system in real time. ...

    Free Mac OS X

  • XWinspector

    Discover hidden features of other software with XWinSpector. It works like Spy++ but has many other features!

    Free Personal Windows