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How to open the Task Manager in Windows 11 and Windows 10

Tudor Dan
12.10.2021

Task Manager is a great tool that helps you manage the way apps, processes, and services run on your Windows PC. Before you can work with the Task Manager, you should first know how to open it. In this guide,

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How disable the Task Manager in Windows 10

Codrut Neagu
24.02.2020

There are some cases in which you might want to disable Task Manager in Windows 10. There are also opposite situations, when you want to enable Task Manager, like when your computer was infected by malware that disabled the Task

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7 better alternatives to the Task Manager from Windows

Codrut Neagu
31.10.2019

The Task Manager app from Windows is an essential feature of the operating system, and nearly everyone has used it on their computers. We also think that the most frequent use of this tool is to close apps that no

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How to create a dump file for an app, background or Windows process

Ciprian Adrian Rusen
24.09.2019

You may not know what a dump file is, but you may have noticed Windows 10 mentioning a dump file when it crashes into a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). A dump file is a snapshot of an app or

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7 ways to keep tabs on your systems' performance with the Task Manager

Codrut Neagu
06.08.2019

Have you ever wanted to know how much of your processor's power is being used at a particular time? Or maybe how much free RAM was left for your favorite game to use? How about how much of your video

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View details about running processes with the Windows 10 Task Manager

Diana Ann Roe
18.07.2019

Although Task Manager's Processes tab offers detailed information about how programs use system resources, it is the Details tab that allows you to find out everything you need to know about running processes (and more). Task Manager's Details tab provides

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Use the App history from Task Manager to view your apps' resource consumption

Diana Ann Roe
04.07.2019

Windows 10's Task Manager can be a gold mine of information when it comes to apps and how they use your computer's resources. While most of the tabs display real-time data, the App history tab collects and reports usage statistics

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How to manage signed-in user accounts with the Task Manager in Windows 10

Codrut Neagu
27.06.2019

Having multiple user accounts logged in on your Windows 10 computer can make swapping between them faster, but it can also waste resources as your computer is forced to maintain two separate environments in memory. If you want the

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How to identify the Windows 10 apps that hog system resources

Codrut Neagu
13.06.2019

Regardless of how new or old your Windows 10 computer is, at times, you might find that it starts lagging and stops being responsive. That usually means that something is hogging its resources. It might be an app that takes

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How to view and disable startup programs from Windows 10's Task Manager

Diana Ann Roe
11.06.2019

With Windows 10, Microsoft has improved the startup time of our PCs. However, performance degrades over time, slowing down your device. As you install more and more desktop apps, they sneak themselves or their agents onto the startup list, lengthening

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Manage, start, stop, or restart Windows 10 services from the Task Manager

Diana Ann Roe
07.06.2019

A service is a special type of application intended to provide features to the user and the operating system, that launches and runs in the background, without a user interface to click on. As in previous versions, the Task Manager

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11 ways to manage running processes with the Task Manager in Windows 10

Diana Ann Roe
06.06.2019

The Windows 10 Task Manager gives you a lot of power when it comes to monitoring system resources. The Processes tab shares more information than ever before, allowing you to customize the data it shows according to your needs. Here

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9 Things you can do from the Task Manager's compact view in Windows 10

Diana Ann Roe
03.06.2019

The Task Manager is an app primarily used to get more information about the processes and applications running on your PC. That is why the first time you open the Task Manager in Windows 10, you might be in for

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How to set the default view/tab for the Windows 10 Task Manager

Ciprian Adrian Rusen
03.05.2019

Starting with the Windows 10 May 2019 Update or version 1903, the Task Manager receives a few improvements. One of them is the fact that you can now set the default tab displayed by Task Manager when you open it.

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Ten reasons why the Task Manager rocks in Windows 10 (and in Windows 8.1)

Codrut Neagu
05.07.2017

The Task Manager has always been one of the most useful tools in Windows, but it has also been one of the most boring ones. Fortunately, that was a thing of the past, as the new Task Manager from Windows