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wtop is an htop-style process viewer for Windows, published by Cingano Development and currently available in version 1.2.0, with two versions released to date. Written in pure C using only the Win32 API and the C standard library, it operates with no external dependencies, making it a lightweight and self-contained system monitoring utility. Its purpose is to give users a real-time, terminal-friendly overview of system activity and running processes, modeled on the popular htop tool familiar to Linux users but adapted natively to the Windows environment. The interface displays per-core CPU meters alongside a memory meter, allowing quick assessment of overall resource utilization, while the process table is both sortable and filterable so users can locate specific processes efficiently. The table supports a tree view for visualizing parent-child process relationships, process tagging for organizing selections, bulk kill for terminating multiple tagged processes at once, and full mouse support for convenient navigation. For deeper inspection, wtop provides a per-process detail view that exposes environment variables, open files, registry keys, and sockets, as well as the complete thread list of the selected process. An additional I/O tab reports live network and disk throughput, helping users identify resource-heavy processes and diagnose performance bottlenecks. Falling within the system utilities and process monitoring category, wtop suits system administrators, developers, and power users who need to observe system behavior, troubleshoot misbehaving applications, or manage processes from a compact native tool. Because it relies solely on built-in Windows interfaces, it can run without installation of third-party libraries, which makes it practical for restricted or minimal environments. Overall, wtop delivers a comprehensive yet dependency-free alternative for interactive process viewing and management on Windows systems, combining monitoring, inspection, and process control features in a single application.
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