Discover why Process Explorer beats Windows Task Manager as a great alternative for task management, providing deeper insights and faster PC fixes.

Windows 11 is far from perfect, but it does make Task Manager significantly better. It's modern, has a search bar, and easy-to-understand graphs. But what are some of the lesser-known features of the ...

Windows Task Manager has come a long way. It now conforms to the Windows 11 UI standards, supports theming, and has better visualization and process control. Whenever a process acts up, or I see some ...

If you are like most Windows users, you probably only open Task Manager when something goes wrong. Maybe an app froze, or your PC fans suddenly started spinning loudly. But Task Manager is far more ...

You've probably done it yourself: you need to know how hard a given application is hitting your CPU, so you pull up Windows' Task Manager to check the CPU utilization. For a casual inquiry, this is ...

Microsoft devotes most of its time and energy these days to promoting new AI- and Copilot-related features for Windows 11, but the company’s Windows Insider builds are still full of small tweaks and ...

In the latest Windows Insider beta update released November 21, Microsoft announced the arrival of its full-screen Xbox experience for laptops and desktops alongside a number of other new features and ...

One reason to use the Task Manager in Windows is to see if any of the apps running on your computer are misbehaving or using a disproportionate amount of resources. But what do you do when the ...

Task Manager is one of the essential tools of Windows, an easy, always-available look at what software is running (or not). But most users don’t have it open constantly and even those who do probably ...

Dave Plummer was once a programmer for Microsoft, where he played a key role in the development of the Windows Task Manager as well as the ZIP archive import for the operating system. The man has ...