When comparing PowerToys vs Process Hacker, the Slant community recommends Process Hacker for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for Windows?” Process Hacker is ranked 8th while PowerToys is ranked 15th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Create your own "Fancy Zones"
Fancy Zones are the places that application windows snap to into. You may choose a pre configured set of zones or create your own ones. You also have to use a shortcut instead of mouse to snap windows into the grid.
Pro Native and supported by Microsoft
No need to install third-party tools, and is efficiently integrated with Windows 10.
Pro Free
Pro Includes various helpful features and tools
Not just a tiling window manager, includes search box, keyboard command remapper, and more
Pro Includes Keyboard remapper
Remap your keyboard or well known shortcuts to work with other combinations. Are you used to copy paste on a Mac? Add Alt+C / Alt+V for copy and paste!
Pro Get an OS level color picker
Turn it on or off, it's your choice.
Pro Every Feature can be enabled or disabled to your liking
Pro Windows button shortcut cheat sheet
Press Windows+G to see all shortcuts that can be used with the Windows button.
Pro Easily customizable
Menu to add/edit zones is very intuitive.
Pro 'Wox' launcher is bundled
The popular open source launcher Wox is included in PowerToys and can be toggled on or off. It takes less resources or time at launch than the stand alone version of Wox.
Pro Global Push to talk
Currently experimental.
Pro See programs with active network connections
Pro Real-time information on disk access
Pro 10x more detail and information about usage of PC resources and processes
Pro Can be set as your default task manager
Pro Detailed overview of system activity with highlighting
Pro Can create, edit and control services
Pro Can track which processes are using a file
Pro Open source
You can find the code here.
Pro View detailed stack traces with kernel-mode
Supports WOW64 and .NET.
Pro Graphs and statistics to quickly track down resource hogs and runaway processes
Cons
Con Doesn't remember window locations after monitors turn off
If monitors get turned off or are disabled, windows tend to get cluttered when they adjust to the changes, which does make sense, but window locations aren't remembered if the configuration changes back to how it was.