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opened 2026-01-31 02:56:27 +00:00 by claunia · 8 comments
claunia commented 2026-01-31 02:56:27 +00:00
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Originally created by @just1a-person on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020).

I don't know if this in scope for this repository. But since this repo houses the command line infrastructure of Windows. I thought I would ask here

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Htop is very useful. I would like to see something similar in Windows

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claunia commented 2026-01-31 02:56:29 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020):

I suppose this is the best place to ask for such a feature. htop is a great utility, and I think I end up installing it on every linux box I end up working on. That being said, I doubt that we'll be shipping a version of it for Windows ourselves 😢 I'm not sure that there is a truly good equivalent on Windows, though ntop looks like it might be good. Maybe that's a good place for developers to contribute?

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020): I suppose this is the best place to ask for such a feature. `htop` is a great utility, and I think I end up installing it on every linux box I end up working on. That being said, I doubt that we'll be shipping a version of it for Windows ourselves 😢 I'm not sure that there is a truly good equivalent on Windows, though [ntop](https://github.com/gsass1/NTop) looks like it might be good. Maybe that's a good place for developers to contribute?
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@Don-Vito commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020):

@zadjii-msft - shouldn't it be somehow based on Sys Internals?

@Don-Vito commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020): @zadjii-msft - shouldn't it be somehow based on Sys Internals?
claunia commented 2026-01-31 02:56:29 +00:00
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@just1a-person commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020):

@zadjii-msft I meant to ask for a Windows executable that lives in System32 and is shipped with every Windows 10 install

@just1a-person commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020): @zadjii-msft I meant to ask for a Windows executable that lives in System32 and is shipped with every Windows 10 install
claunia commented 2026-01-31 02:56:29 +00:00
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@just1a-person commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020):

I don't want an alternative like ntop

@just1a-person commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020): I don't want an alternative like ntop
claunia commented 2026-01-31 02:56:29 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020):

That would maybe make sense. Is Sys Internals still maintained? Wow yes it is. TIL. They've already done the hard work, so it can't be that hard to take the backend they've already got and turn that into a CUI interface, right 😆?

a Windows executable that lives in System32 and is shipped with every Windows 10 install

That's pretty unlikely to happen tbh. There's a lot more bureaucracy involved in shipping something in-box rather than just shipping it as an OSS tool that users can download with something like winget. Even if it were a first-party tool - colortool ships out of this repo, and that's the closest precedent that this team has. Heck, even the Terminal itself isn't in-box 😜

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020): That would maybe make sense. Is Sys Internals still maintained? Wow yes it is. TIL. They've already done the hard work, so it can't be that hard to take the backend they've already got and turn that into a CUI interface, _right_ 😆? > a Windows executable that lives in System32 and is shipped with every Windows 10 install That's pretty unlikely to happen tbh. There's a lot more bureaucracy involved in shipping something in-box rather than just shipping it as an OSS tool that users can download with something like `winget`. Even if it were a first-party tool - `colortool` ships out of this repo, and that's the closest precedent that this team has. Heck, _even the Terminal itself_ isn't in-box 😜
claunia commented 2026-01-31 02:56:30 +00:00
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@just1a-person commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020):

At least a Microsoft maintained "htop" would be nice. I don't mind if I had to download it manually

@just1a-person commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020): At least a Microsoft maintained "htop" would be nice. I don't mind if I had to download it manually
claunia commented 2026-01-31 02:56:30 +00:00
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@DHowett commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020):

Thanks for the request! You found the right folks to ask, but unfortunately we don't have the capacity or charge to work on this right now. There's a lot of love necessary for our commandline experience to be better, but the best way forward is to get some external developers really into it and see what good they can make.

We're a lot different now than we used to be: we ship bsdtar and curl inbox now, and they're open-source projects other people wrote long before we were here. That doesn't mean we'll bring any random OSS tool inbox, but it does mean that we care about the experience here.

Closing as a "good idea that we don't have time for"

@DHowett commented on GitHub (Dec 10, 2020): Thanks for the request! You found the right folks to ask, but unfortunately we don't have the capacity or charge to work on this right now. There's a lot of love necessary for our commandline experience to be better, but the best way forward is to get some external developers really into it and see what good they can make. We're a lot different now than we used to be: we ship bsdtar and curl _inbox_ now, and they're open-source projects other people wrote long before we were here. That doesn't mean we'll bring any random OSS tool inbox, but it does mean that we care about the experience here. Closing as a "good idea that we don't have time for"
claunia commented 2026-01-31 02:56:30 +00:00
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@skyline75489 commented on GitHub (Dec 11, 2020):

Wait, curl is shipped inbox now? Since when does this happen? Is libcurl also included like libicu starting 1709? If libcurl is included that would be awesome.

@skyline75489 commented on GitHub (Dec 11, 2020): Wait, curl is shipped inbox now? Since when does this happen? Is libcurl also included like libicu starting 1709? If libcurl is included that would be awesome.
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