How can I check resource usage from command line windows? top for windows?

Maybe you are remoted onto the computer, maybe you like pain, maybe you want to show off, or maybe you just want to know if there is a top/htop like equivalent in windows.

Meet Ntop by gsass1 (I don’t think that’s his actual name though I guess it’s Gian S.)

The readme is your guide here, but it basically works like htop for windows.

Install through chocolatey with ‘ choco install ntop.portable ‘ (or if you are uncivilized use the manual installer)

I like to start it with:

Ntop -s CPU%  (to sort by cpu usage), but if you want to get crazy there are other ways too. I don’t want to bore you with the details. I’m just telling you about the tool, gsaas1 can tell you how to use it.

Here is a picture of me running it, sorted by cpu%:

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