The Windows Task Manager can help you determine the cause of a problem and to kill the problem application. First, the task manager’s purpose is to provide computer performance information along with details about currently running programs, processes and services. It also provides the ability to monitor your network traffic if you are connected to a network. ..

Opening Task Manager

  1. Open the Start Menu and type task manager.
  2. Press the left arrow key on your keyboard to go to the third tab, and then type task manager into the text field.
  3. Click on the Task Manager button in the top left corner of the screen.
  4. In the Task Manager window, you will see a list of all your currently running tasks. To stop a task, click on it and then press the spacebar or right arrow key to select Stop.

To quickly close all open programs, press Ctrl+Shift+Esc. This is similar to the Ctrl+Alt+Delete shortcut most people are familiar with. ..

If you want to delete a task, you can do so by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combination and then clicking on the Task Manager link. ..

If you press Windows Key + X, the power menu will appear. If you right-click on the Start button and select “Power Options,” then you’ll see a link to the task manager.

Task Manager Overiew

If you want to see the full list of running applications, you can open the Task Manager by pressing Windows key + R, and type taskmgr.exe into the Run box.

Microsoft has decided that most people will only use the task manager to close programs, so they have hidden all of the extra details. If you want to know what is happening with a program that is not responding, simply click on it and click on End Task button.

To see all the running apps on your computer, click on the More Details tab. This will show you the task manager with all of its tabs. ..

Processes, Details & Services Tabs

Background processes are the ones that run in the background and don’t usually require your attention. They’re usually used by programs to keep track of their data or to keep your computer running smoothly. Windows processes are the ones that run on your PC when you start it up. ..

Windows 10 background processes:

  1. Windows Store apps and third-party apps running on the system.
  2. Some of the processes here you might see running in the system tray. Most of the others are background processes that will sit idly until you open the program or when a scheduled task runs. ..

The Windows processes section is a collection of core processes that are used to run Windows 10. It includes many Service Host (svchost.exe) processes. You need to know which Windows service is running inside each svchost.exe process in order to fix the high CPU usage issue.

This tab allows you to get detailed resource usage information for each process running on your computer. This can be a quick way to diagnose a slow computer if one process is taking up 95% of your CPU, or if one program is causing your disk usage to up to 100%.

The Processes tab is also good for restarting Explorer. All you have to do is right-click on Windows Explorer and choose Restart. In previous versions of Windows, you had to kill the process and then run a new explorer.exe task, which was a pain. ..

You can right-click on a process to get a list of actions you can take on that process.

You can end the task, create a dump file, go to details, open the file location, search online or see the properties. End task will go ahead and kill the process. Create dump file is only used by developers and you’ll never need to worry about it. Go to details will take you to the Details tab, where you can see the process ID.

The description of the process is a good place to start your search for more information. If you’re not sure what a process does or where it came from, click the Search online link and it will perform a search for that EXE file along with the description. The Open file location option is useful if you want to know the location of the EXE file on your computer. ..

If you right-click on a process, you’ll also see an option to go to the services tab. Note that you can set the priority and set affinity for the process here. You should never really change these values for any process unless you know what you are doing.

If the process has a service associated with it, it will highlight that particular service on the Services tab. However, not all processes have a service associated with them.

You can right-click to start or stop a service and you can also open the Services console from here. This screen will show you all services on the system and show you which ones are running and which ones are stopped.

In this article, we’ll take a look at the Task Manager in Windows 10 and what it can be used for. The Task Manager is a tool that helps you understand how your computer is performing and how to improve it.