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Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

#1

Post by pragmar » Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 3:24 PM UTC

Hey HN, I made a Windows process monitor for app developers and advanced end users. I wanted a taskmgr system-level graph view per app. Windows procmon, while capable, has always been tedious to set up (esp. if not used often). That's pretty much the whole idea behind the app--to simplify app-level monitoring, to make it easy. I hope some of you find it useful!

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#2

Post by antithesis-nl » Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 3:47 PM UTC

So, yeah: I installed this, and was impressed, just because it's an .appx package. I mean, how do you even create those?

Other than that: it did not immediately crypto-lock my laptop and/or ramp up my GPU mining Führercoins, so that was good too.

Other than that: I did not really see any metrics worth of attention, so I uninstalled the app again, which seemed to work fine as well.

Thrilling stuff, I know...

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#3

Post by GordonS » Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 3:47 PM UTC

I usually lean on Resource Monitor when I need this kind of info, but it's clunky - so this looks useful!

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#4

Post by zerr » Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC

> Native WinUI–fast startup, light operation

Did anyone notice the Windows Calc app became quite slow to startup recently? It takes 2+ seconds to transform from the empty window with a calc icon to the actual calculator UI.

I should get Win7 calc.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 4:03 PM UTC

zerr wrote: post #4

> Native WinUI–fast startup, light operation Did anyone notice the Windows Calc app became quite slow to startup recently? It takes 2+ seconds to transform from the empty window with a calc icon to the actual calculator UI. I should get Win7 calc.