psmux / pstop

pstop

htop for Windows. A terminal system monitor for Windows 10 and 11, written in Rust, that also answers to htop.

Star pstop on GitHub 255 Releases
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 11
  • MIT
  • v0.5.4
pstopquick start
PS> winget install marlocarlo.pstop
PS> pstop --install-alias
PS> htop
release
v0.5.4, April 2026
runs on
Windows 10, Windows 11
size
about 1 MB, one binary
downloads
10,056 from GitHub releases
license
MIT

What pstop shows

pstop is an htop style process viewer for Windows. It shows per core CPU bars, memory, swap, network and GPU meters above a process list you can sort, search, filter and turn into a tree. You can kill a process, change its priority or set its CPU affinity from the keyboard.

More than htop shows

Extra tabs cover disk I/O per process, network bandwidth per process without admin rights, GPU use per process, and the processes running inside WSL.

Questions

Is there an htop for Windows?

pstop is one. It runs in PowerShell or Windows Terminal on Windows 10 and 11, and pstop --install-alias adds an htop command.

Does the per process network tab need admin rights?

No. The README says per process bandwidth works without admin.

install 
PS> winget install marlocarlo.pstop
255GitHub stars
10,056release downloads
23color schemes

Stars and downloads from the GitHub API, October 2026. Also on crates.io with 951 downloads.

  • Per core CPU bars, plus memory, swap, network, GPU and VRAM meters
  • Five tabs: Main, I/O, Net (per process bandwidth, no admin), GPU and WSL
  • Tree view, search, filter, kill, priority and CPU affinity
  • F2 setup menu for meters, columns and 15 display options
  • 23 color schemes, including the 16 Windows Terminal schemes
  • Mouse support and opt in vim keys
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