Top Process for Windows

See which app is using the most CPU or memory, right on your Stream Deck

To see which app is slowing your PC, add Top Process for Windows and put a Top CPU or Top Memory key on your Stream Deck: the key names the app that uses the most right now. When the PC gets slow you know the culprit before you even open Task Manager, and one press opens Task Manager when you want to act.

Get it on the Elgato Marketplace

Stream Deck plugin · Works on Windows 10 or later with the Stream Deck app 6.9 or later.

What you can do

• Top CPU: the name of the app that uses the most CPU now and its share (100% = all cores).
• Top Memory: the app that holds the most memory and how much, in GB or MB.
• Show the top app large, or the top three on one key.
• App Watch: the CPU and memory of one app you pick from the running apps, and whether it is running.
• Clear names: a browser and its helper processes count as one app.
• Warning at a glance: the key turns red from the limit you set.
• Press any key to open Task Manager.
• Read only and private: it changes no app or setting, and the app names it reads are not saved or sent anywhere.
• English and Japanese.

How it works

1. Install the plugin from the Elgato Marketplace. In the Stream Deck app, drag Top CPU or Top Memory onto a key. It works at once.
2. For App Watch, select the key and pick the app from the running apps.
3. Optionally set the limit at which the key turns red. Press the key to open Task Manager.

CPU is read every 2 seconds and averaged over about 6 seconds, so the value does not jump.

Get Top Process for Windows on the Elgato Marketplace

Questions

Limits

• Read only: it does not end, slow down or change any app or setting.
• No GPU, disk or network use per app.
• A process that just started shows after a few seconds.
• Names are program file names without ".exe" (for example "explorer").
• When Windows does not answer, the keys show "--".
• Windows only (Windows 10 or later). Not for Mac.