DEBLOAT - Windows Process Manager

A lightweight web-based tool for inspecting, monitoring, and managing Windows processes. It runs a local FastAPI server and serves a dashboard in your browser.

Features

Process listing

Enumerates every running process and displays its PID, parent PID, name, executable path, command line, and username. Processes that psutil cannot read are filled in via a PowerShell CIM fallback.

Friendly display names

Common processes are shown with meaningful labels instead of raw executable names:

• svchost.exe → service or group name (e.g. "Dhcp (svchost.exe)")
• chrome.exe, msedge.exe, Code.exe, msedgewebview2.exe → subprocess type (e.g. "renderer (chrome.exe)")
• crosvm.exe → subcommand (e.g. "device-block (crosvm.exe)")

Process categorization

Each process is classified as required, necessary, auxiliary, user, bad, or other based on the entries in known_processes.json.

Process termination

Kill any process by PID directly from the dashboard.

Real-time history monitor

A background thread polls every 3 seconds and records up to 1000 events:

• launched : a new process appeared
• closed : a process disappeared
• high_cpu : a process crossed the 80% CPU threshold

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• fastapi
• uvicorn
• psutil

Installation

pip install fastapi uvicorn psutil

Usage

python server.py

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your browser.

Files

File	Description
server.py	Main application (API + monitor)
index.html	Web dashboard front-end
known_processes.json	Process classification database

API Endpoints

Method	Path	Description
GET	/	Web dashboard
GET	/api/processes	List all running processes (JSON)
DELETE	/api/processes/{pid}	Terminate a process by PID
GET	/api/history	Recent process events (JSON)