Questions tagged [task-manager]
Use for questions about the Windows Task Manager utility for managing system processes. Do not use for questions relating to human tasks.
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Why is the computer memory reported as full, while processes use much less memory?
My Windows 10 PC has 16GB RAM installed. Yet everything is soooo slowww.
In Task Manager, I see that the memory utilization is almost always at 98%-99% level. Yet, the aggregate memory consumption of ...
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How can I export the Processes tab from Task Manager on Windows 10?
I have looked at the answers to similar posts, and though the question looks the same, the answers do not fulfill my needs.
What I'm trying to do is capture the list of open Windows Explorer paths ...
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Why does my memory usage have high percentage in task manager but the memory shown being used by each program doesn't add up to anything high? [duplicate]
When I use Task Manager to see how much memory is being used, it says 76% memory. I have 8GB of ram. However when I add up all the memory being used by all the different processes, it doesn't add up ...
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How to disable startup programs not found in Task Manager and CCleaner?
I have a lot of unnecessary processes that run on startup that I don't want. However, they are not shown on Task Manager > startup or the CCleaner program. How do i manually disable these programs ...
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How to Set A secondary Debugging software in Windows 10 TaskManager Debug
I would like to know if there is a way to add a secondary
debugging software, to the right click context menu
of the TaskManager, Prefferably SublimeText Editor 3,
or any other similar software, ...
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Cant Kill Task Windows
I can not kill firefox.exe which appears to be running having some kind of problem. I tried taskkill and the solution in a prevous answer, but as one of the comments says
When I call terminate it ...
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Why and how Task Manager's Services tab hides some services<
On Windows 10, if I open Task Manager, the Services tab, there are not all services I can see in Services.msc.
Also, what is Name in msc is Description in Task Manager.. The msc is connected to Local ...
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How to tell what program is using Windows Based Script Host?
I regularly have Microsoft ® Windows Based Script Host (located at C:\Windows\SysWOW64\wscript.exe) popping in my Task Manager and using a lot of CPU. From my understanding this software is used by ...
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Remind me when CPU/Memory/Disk/Network changes in the Task Manager
I am running some program which keeps the Disk utilisation at high percentage. When the program finishes, the Disk utilisation drops to low level. Is that possible I can be emailed, or some other ...
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How to track down what's "melting" my laptop - spinning the fan
Problem:
CPU fan spins at random times.
Why it's a problem?
Linux laptop is sitting in my room. Unused by me. Spins fan in irregular moments (probably using lot of CPU). Sometimes couple of seconds. ...
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Would the “App history” in task manager record app history correctly after the computer was restarted due to blue screen of death?
E.g. I was using an application before the BSoD show up. Would the CPU time of this application as recorded by task manager be less than it actually is?
I am using windows 10.
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Why does Task Manager performance view over-report CPU usage?
I noticed a discrepancy in Task Manager between the performance tab and the details tab. Performance tab shows 14% utilization, while the numbers in the details tab add up to about 5%. I know there ...
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New SSD identified as HDD [duplicate]
I've bought cheap Verbatim Vx500 SSD for my media server's boot drive. Cloned system drive to it with Aomei Partition Asisstant and everything works.
But today I've noticed that Windows10 thinks it ...
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Why does my SSD suddenly show up as HDD in the Task Manager?
My system’s 1 TB Western Digital M2 SSD shows up as an HDD in Task Manager. I did fresh Windows install couple days ago and it was showing just fine - SSD.
Today when I booted and checked - it says ...
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What is Task Managers "Up time"?
I recently built a PC. I usually have Task Manager open in the background while I'm doing stuff. I noticed in the CPU tab, there is a stat that reads "Up time:". I previously thought that ...
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Task Manager and Process Lasso close unexpectedly after a few minutes
I've had this issue for a while, where the Task Manager will just close by itself after being open for a few minutes. I first thought it was a virus, but honestly, that's a poorly written virus if it ...
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Is there any way to distribute the processes of the system on all cores in windows 10?
My computer is running all processes on CPU0. I don't know how to change that behavior. The processor is from the 3rd generation and there are no updates from the vendor (VAIO) to the software.
I ...
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Close multiple processes of an application in powershell
I have an application that when opened sometimes opens several times. The application has one Process and background process but sometimes many can open.
I am trying to write a powershell script that ...
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Why does Task Manager show all per-process network activity as 0 Mbps?
I'm running Windows 10 Pro x64 version 2004, and while trying to get a handle on network performance of a process (the home network impact disaster that is the Epic Store client, but that's another ...
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"No startup items to display" when running Task Manager as administrator
I am trying to disable startup items and some items cannot be disabled when I am running Task Manager as a regular user, when I run it as an Administrator, the startup tab is empty, displaying the ...
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PID in CMD.EXE is not showing in Task Manager
So I was looking at my cmd.exe > netstat -ano and I noticed that there were two PID's (4472)(9032) that had the same IP address that was showing as established. When I went to compare the PIDs to ...
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Safely Ejecting a Drive - I almost never find any program using the device. Why doesn't Windows say which programs are using the device?
I've read "just pull it out anyway", and I've read "you'll be sorry".
Shouldn't Windows be able to tell me which programs are using the device, and ask me if I want to close those ...
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Do not show hidden jobs in Windows Task Scheduler by default
In the Windows Task Scheduler on the item "View" when I choose "Show hidden tasks" so that it is turned off, it is not remembered. The next time I run the scheduler, hidden tasks ...
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Intel chip ALWAYS above base clock speed
My Intel chip is constantly running at a speed close to its max turbo frequency, even when the machine is relatively idle. I recently had an issue with it running too slowly, and followed this advice,...
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Acer Nitro 5 Ram Almost Full Everytime with no Application running
I have an Acer Nitro 5 Ryzen 5 Laptop and it have 8 GB of RAM out of which 2.1 GB is hardware reserved for Graphics I think. Rest ~5.8 GB left is always under use and only about 100MB ram is free.
No ...
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Windows 10: Restore hidden application windows
Every once in a while, I mistakenly Hold Alt and Shift while typing 2 or 3 or 4 (but not 1). When that happens, then one of the applications I have open disappears. Note that this doesn't mean its ...
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App is in task manager but not visible
I try to open GoLand and it shows up in task manager:
But it doesn't show up in taskbar:
Also pressing alt + tab doesn't show the app. Looks like the app is running but not visible. Did anybody run ...
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Stop Task Manager App History Feature
Is there a way to stop Task Manager from logging the App History.
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Windows Slow Down: high ram and CPU usage by miscellaneous windows process
I recently experienced the slowdown of my windows 10 desktop pc.
Issue - slow Windows due to mysterious process
DESCRIPTION:
I checked the task manager for finding reason of slowdown. There I saw a ...
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Reinstall Task Manager without reinstalling Windows 10?
A few months ago I accidentally deleted C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe (I don't remember how or why). I'd like to get the application back (no, I don't have a backup stored somewhere), but the only ...
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Can bad memory hardware slow down Windows 10?
My Windows 10 is sluggish on a 24GB laptop with an SSD. Often I click on an option in an app and it takes 2-5 seconds to respond. I went through disabling Windows Search and some unneeded Windows ...
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Why do RAMMAP's total RAM usage of processes/mapped-file not even remotely add up to the total Memory usage in User Counts?
RamMap: User Counts
Processes
File summary
In RamMap, the memory usage in first image is right.
However, when I tried to add up all the Active memory, and the 2nd image and 3rd image doesn't match ...
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Is it possible to keep application priorities same even after restart in Windows-10?
I usually change priorities of few application which I'm not using to low when I'm using applications which consume a lot of CPU and RAM. I also set their priorities to realtime using Task Manager.
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Windows 10 RAM Usage: Task Manager vs tasklist command
Windows 10 Task Manager shows that I'm using 17.5 GB of RAM, but if I run the following from a command prompt:
> tasklist /FO csv
load the CSV file into excel, then total the Mem Usage column, it ...
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Shifted position of Task Manager even after changing it
The task manager shifts from its position even if I change its position to some other place.
Note the gap of few pixels.
After shifting it so that it reaches the edge of the screen.
Now it is at ...
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Windows 10: enumerating sessionnames - access is denied
When I open Task Manager, Processes and Users tabs are empty. There are a lot of topic over the internet with the problem, but I couldn't find a fix for the problem.
Then tried to open a cmd prompt ...
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CPU frequency is 2x the base frequency.... and fan is always 100%
On a laptop Dell Inspiron 5584, I see the following in the task manager :
Base : CPU frequency : 1,99 Ghz
Current speed : 4,21 Ghz (and varying from 3 to 4,2 Ghz every second)
The computer is doing ...
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Why max CPU usage is capped in Windows 10 just few percents below 100%?
I wonder why sometimes max CPU usage in Windows 10 is capped just few percents below 100%. Max CPU power is at 100% in Control panel/Power options applet.
Is it just wrong reporting? You just can't ...
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Task Manager disabled by your administrator
Recently, I tried to open the Task Manager in Windows 10, I found the Task Manager option disabled (Task Manager word is dark instead of white). I tried to open it via a command prompt by typing ...
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Is > 5000MB/s normal for a 1TB 7200RPM HDD?
so I decided to do a full scan with windows defender and am really confused as to why the hard-drive exceeded its limit during the scan(except if 200MB/s isn't the maximum read-write limit), I got ...
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Windows overusing RAM and task manager percentage does not match the values
I've been trying to fix my RAM overusage by the system, because it has about 80 to 90 percent at idle and starts crashing after an hour of using just Skype and three Chrome tabs simultaneously while ...
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Change summary graph in Task Manager?
Lately I have been using my computers for Folding@Home. I enjoy having the task manager graphs on the screen showing utilization. However for my GPU, the utilization shown in the preview is the 3D ...
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How to identify actual PowerShell command under Windows 10 from Task manager?
I have a well-used four core developer machine running Windows 10 which has seen it's bit of software going in and out. Being a Java developer I am not that familiar with Windows 10 under the hood ...
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High CPU usage from "VBoxVirtualHeadless" (VirtualBox isn't install it on my laptop)
My CPU load is high, up to 100% a lot of the time, because of a two tasks called "VBoxVirtualHeadless" and "VirtualBox", which have a high CPU usage up to 60% even if VirtualBox isn't installed on my ...
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Hide removable disks in Task Managers Performance tab
Task Manager shows all removable disks in the "Performance" tab. How can I hide them? None of them is actually plugged in. Only disk 0 and 1 are actually there.
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Windows 10 - Disable UWP process group apps from running automatically
Edition: Windows 10 Home | Version: 1909 | OS build: 18363.693.
Just came across a specific process group on Windows 10, in the Task Manager.
It is known as UWP and represented with a leaf, as one ...
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Task manager: Hide when minimized without GUI
When you launch taskmgr.exe, there is an option "Hide When Minimized" (under Options menu).
I am looking for how to run it with that option without using GUI in the task manager itself.
That is, a ...
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Task Manager change CPU core display
In Windows 10 Task Manager, I have noticed two different behaviors on different machines. I set the CPU graph to show Logical Processors. On one machine, I see a "heat map" with the shading of each ...
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Is there a way to get the (usage time) - time the PC was on - in windows 10 - as is shown in Windows 7?
I previously had a Windows 7 Professional OS 32 bits in my PC, but now I have a Windows 10 Pro - 64 bits.
In Windows 7, every time I turn on the PC, I can check in the Task Manager the "time on" the ...
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'Performance' tab of the task manager is frozen [duplicate]
The 'Performance' tab of the task manager is frozen in Windows 10 (V1909). I can select options to change the views of the graph but this screen is particularly frozen. It happened all of a sudden and ...