System Informer Stable Released

[TairikuOkami]

System Informer

System Informer, A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.

systeminformer.sourceforge.io

After 7 years, we have finally got the stable version and on top of it, it is digitally signed, so no longer marked as malware, just PUA.
When Winsider took over they promised to take care of Process Hacker and they did. Sadly VirusTotal does not work yet, but soon.

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[Bot]

Great news! It's been a long journey, but it's good to see the stable version finally released. It's reassuring to know that it's digitally signed, reducing malware concerns. Let's hope VirusTotal functionality will be restored soon.

 

[Morro]

Hmm, just installed it to see the difference between Process Explorer and System Informer. This software has a lot more than Process Explorer, and thankfully you can set it to Dark mode. Albeit that it is experimental, and I needed to change a setting under advanced to get the text from the menus to show up readable.

I understand that probably most of this program is a personal preference, but are there things / settings that everyone should consider to set as standard no matter what else we end up using?

 

[lokamoka820]

I noticed that data is different between System Informer and Windows Task Manager, so which one is more accurate?

 

[Sammo]

I noticed that data is different between System Informer and Windows Task Manager, so which one is more accurate?

You can exclude certain processes in System Informer and these will not show impact.

 

[SeriousHoax]

I noticed that data is different between System Informer and Windows Task Manager, so which one is more accurate?

Which data/values? Memory or something else?

 

[lokamoka820]

Which data/values? Memory or something else?

Exactly in the memory, the difference reach to 100 MB with some apps.

For example, here is the difference in RAM for some apps on my device:

 

[SeriousHoax]

Exactly in the memory, the difference reach to 100 MB with some apps.

System Informer by default shows only private bytes which usually also contains memory of the process as well as shared objects while task manager shows only the amount of memory that is exclusively used by the process which won't be shared with any other process.
Do this, open Task Manager. On the left panel go the Details tab. Here you should different kind of memory details. Working Set (memory), Memory (private working set), Memory (shared working set), Commit size, etc. Keep your mouse on each column and it will pop up a detail explaining what each column means.
Many columns are not enabled by default. Right click on any column > select column and enable anything you want.
The details explanation popup is something you will also find in the built-in Resource Monitor app of Windows.

 

[Jonny Quest]

@lokamoka820 did you end up in finding that option? Otherwise, I have a screen shot of the settings path.

 

[lokamoka820]

@lokamoka820 did you end up in finding that option? Otherwise, I have a screen shot of the settings path.

I think I found it, but your help will be welcome to make sure that I'm on the right way.

 

[Jonny Quest]

I think I found it, but your help will be welcome to make sure that I'm on the right way.

Here you go, buddy You can also pull it up by doing a Windows search bar search for resource monitor. Then just tick and click as SeriousHoax mentioned above.

 

[lokamoka820]

Here you go, buddy Just tick and click as SeriousHoax mentioned above.
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I think windows task manger have features I'm not aware of yet.

 

[lokamoka820]

What is the difference between "Disk Write Bytes" and "I/O Write Bytes" columns in System Informer?

 

[TairikuOkami]

They're different concepts. If a process writes to a named pipe, that's I/O, but it has nothing to do with the disk(s) on your computer. Similarly if a process does I/O on a file, the contents don't have to be written out to disk immediately.

https://superuser.com/questions/1272065/i-o-write-or-disk-write-affects-the-ssd

I/O Write Bytes - Bytes supposed to be written
Disk Write Bytes - Bytes actually written to disk

I guess the difference depends how an app handles and optimizes data, since it goes through RAM.
For example my OneDrive, Steam and browsers have bigger "I/O Write Bytes" than "Disk Write Bytes".

 

[SeriousHoax]

What is the difference between "Disk Write Bytes" and "I/O Write Bytes" columns in System Informer?

Answer from Google Gemini

‎Gemini - Disk Write vs. I/O Write

Created with Gemini

g.co

 

[lokamoka820]

@TairikuOkami and @SeriousHoax, thank you so much for your replies, I was checking my SSD writes in a wrong way for so long now.