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Recurring Message Box VbScript

I have a vbs file whose content is : MsgBox "some thing here",vbOkOnly,"some other thing" I have set it to run periodically using Windows Scheduler. It indeed is running periodically (which i ...
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What is the difference between "Memory" in Task Manager and "Installed Memory (RAM)" in System Settings?

In Task Manager, it says 80% (ish) of my memory is being used, which is about 2500 MB (ish). But in Control Panel / System Settings, it says only 0.16 GB of RAM have been used. I'm not sure what "...
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Why does task manager as administrator not show all tasks seen when NOT administrator?

This is what I see as a user. I am most interested in VBBatchPrint.exe. I want to end the task, but I can't unless I log into task manager as admin. When I enter taskman as administrator, however, ...
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Windows System Message Process Name

What does the task manager list as system messages? For example, if you do a shutdown /r /t 600 /c Message , what would the PID/name of the system message be? Thanks in advance.
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How to find process responsible for a dialog in windows 10?

My Windows 10 occasionally shows a dialog box: I am not sure why is the dialog box shown. It can not be canceled and it disappears only after reboot. I want to find process that shows the dialog ...
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Can you add more entries to the Task View context menu in Win10?

In Win10 when you Win+Tab you get into the task view. I have an app that keeps crashing, but leaves its window 'on top'. This prevents me from using Task Manager to kill it, and I have to restart the ...
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Windows 10 Task Manager shows CPU load wrong

I noticed this last year on someone elses PC and now that I have upgraded to Windows 10 I see it on mine too: Task Manager showing wrong CPU load procentage. See screenshot: There is Process Explorer ...
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How to find out which of the Chrome sessions is playing sounds? Windows 10

I found this question: How can I find out which tab is playing music? but it is an old question that does not solve my problem, which is very similar - or even the same - but the answers there do ...
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can't bring up task manager applications tab on windows 7

On an old Dell D810 running a clean W7 I am unable to bring up Task Manager with all its options. Normally I would expect: File Options View Help and tabs with something like Applications on one of ...
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View all GPU engine usage

Task manager allows one to monitor upto 4 of the GPU engine's usage when Change graph to > Multiple engines option selected. Is there any way to monitor all the available GPU engines? It may not ...
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what could be cause of my slow running laptop on windows 10

I am having a laptop which has 12 GB of RAM. Intel Core i3-60060 CPU 2 Ghz it has become extremely difficult to use this laptop for some unknown reason. I am attaching a couple of screenshots which ...
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Is it way to hide running application from other application?

I`ve migrated from Windows 8 to Windows 10. I used to play multiple Hearthstone windows in compability mode with Windows XP. But on Win10 second Blizzard launcher says "Game already running" anyway. ...
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Keyboard shortcut to pause state updates in Windows 10 Task Manager?

Is there any way to temporarily pause status updates in the Windows 10 Task Manager with a keyboard shortcut? This would be akin to setting the Update Speed to Paused. I'd like this ability so that I ...
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Upgrading memory in Lenovo Ideapad FLEX 14-IWL

I want to upgrade the RAM in my Lenovo Ideapad FLEX 14-IWL (mtm # 81SQ0008US). Task manager shows as 1 of 2 slot used, but Lenovo says there is only one slot, and maximum ram is 32 for it. I am not ...
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Would it be possible for a running virus or malware to hide or pause when the task manager is running in windows 10?

I found that my computer running slowly, but, when the task manager is running, the computer would become more smoothly. Does this mean my computer is running malware or virus? Would it be possible ...
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How do I find the unknown program enabled during Start-Up?

I am using a computer with Windows 10 and, as a normal procedure to reduce the boot time, I accessed the Task Manager and checked what was "Enabled" during the "Start-up". When I opened that tab, I ...
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How to edit command line parameters of startup applications?

In older Windows versions, in MSConfig -> Startup tab you could edit the parameters of a startup application from the Command column. Now in Windows 10, MSConfig moved the Startup tab to Task ...
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What is consuming so much of my system RAM?

I noticed that my system is not going to hibernation state properly since a few days in the past week. I checked a little into my hiberfile size to verify if that was a cause of concern. The ...
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How do I view "sub process" specific memory info in Task Manager (Windows 10)

On some machines, I am able to view the memory consumption of individual "sub processes" of an app in Task manager, like so with Google Chrome: On other machines, I do not get "sub process" specific ...
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List of running applications missing from Task Manager in XP SP3

I'm enclosing a screenshot if it lets me, but here goes. When I press CTRL-ALT-DEL for Task Manager it comes up but the first pane, which usually lists everything I have running (like Firefox Browser ...
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Tooltips with GUI for system monitoring

Im newbie on linux O.S and im trying use FedoraOS 30 . I need a suggestions about tools with gui to monitor the memory, I/O, CPU's, temperature in the motherboard, cpu, kernel, networking, etc. A tool ...
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Task Manager - Processes & Users Tab empty

I have Windows 10 1903 and it's some time that if I open the Task Manager, the Processes and Users tab are empty. After trying to reboot the system, I found out that immediately after the reboot, the ...
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What can cause a process to be run in Windows 10's Session 0?

For my project, I have a GUI executable kick off a number of background processes that all communicate with each other to partition data processing. Recently, I copied over the GUI to another machine, ...
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Phantom start-up program

I opened up Task Manager this morning to find a nameless program listed in the Start-Up Programs.   I am also unable to locate it by right clicking on it: How can I find out what this is? I ...
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Why some startup programs show up with wmic command but not in Task manager?

So i just checked both the result of wmic startup list brief and the startup tab in task manager, and some of the things that start do not show up in the task manager (some are only for my user and ...
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Window glitches when maximized with Task Manager

When I go into Task Manager and select Maximize on a window that can't be, (like the run dialog) the window will act like it can be maximized and will probably look weird. This seems to happen on ...
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How to find the culprit that freeze windows 10 when task manager is also frozen (till windows unfreezes)?

When windows 10 freezes, task manager also freeze until windows become responsive. Since the task manager opens only when the problem is gone, I can't count on it to find what freezes the computer. ...
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How to limit the maximum CPU resources for a specific process?

I've googled and found this blog but when I try to repeat the steps, I see that my context menu doesn't have the options to limit a process. I restarted Task Manager as admin but it didn't make any ...
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Command Line Column in Task Manager

I try to detect what one of many similar by name tasks gets very high memory use. I add to view column "Command line" in Task Manager, but this column is blank for these tasks. How can I get command ...
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Adding programmes to Windows 10 startup through Task manager

I am well aware that when I want to make a programme run on startup under Windows, I am supposed to add a shortcut to the following folder: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start ...
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Windows 10 pro task manager show Very High on power usage on unity editor, How can I Fix it?

The Unity editor was not responding; I had to shut it down the edn task from the task manager. How may I troubleshoot why it consumes so much power and why it went unresponsive? Very high power usage ...
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Why is Task Manager's Network Usage off by about 50%?

This is an interesting thing I've noticed since my internet upgrade (up to 100MBit/s downstream) and I'm not really sure what exactly is happening here – which boggles me. :) This discrepancy seems to ...
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How to log application internet usage? [duplicate]

We can monitor a specific application or process on task manager. However I didn’t find a way that I can record that usage over time, for example, over a month period.
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WIndows Server 2016 - Disk and Network columns are greyed on Task Manager

I need to enable columns disk and network on Server 2016 Standard. Screenshot Task Manager
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How to make Taskmgr.exe on Windows 10 always start with priority "higher"

Prior to Windows 10 the Taskmanager (taskmgr.exe) was automatically started with priority "higher" - which totally makes sense if you want to kill an application that runs amok (and that usually has ...
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What's the link between a WMI using application and the WMIPrvSE.exe process?

Good morning, This is already my third question on this site concerning WMI, hereby the links to my first question and my second question. One of my customers is experiencing a problem, related to ...
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How to find cpu usage as shown in taskmanager using performance monitor

I want to know the CPU usage of a process(given its PID) as shown in the task manager, using performance monitor, as I have to benchmark the performance of the process. This page shows that %Processor ...
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start /affinity parameter not work on ffmpeg in some situation

I want to use start /affinity to reduce cpu usage of ffmpeg, but it doesn't work in some situation. This will work: start /low /affinity 1F ffmpeg -i a.mp4 b.mkv This will not work: start /low /...
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What does the leaf symbol in the status column of the task manager mean?

I noticed there is a status column in Windows 10s task manager where some processes have a symbol that looks like a leaf. I have no idea what the symbol could mean. There is no tool tip describing the ...
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Why some processes cannot change CPU priority?

I'm on older machine and setting priority to Above Normal or High helps to improve performance for certain applications. Like e.g. for games. I use System Explorer to set priority and set to ...
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replicate Task Manager into powershell output

I am new in windows powershell. I want to replicate task manager Process GUI information into excel continuously for every 5 min. Can it be possible ?
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Process ram use counting for more than it should be (*not* another post about why a lot of ram is always being used)

I am experiencing something strange regarding RAM usage in Windows 10 64-bit. Currently my task manager is listing the 917 MB of RAM being used by my internet browser as 40% of my total installed RAM ...
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My laptop is extremely slow and HDD is always 100% engaged in Task Manager

I have been searching for a solution for a while and read many discussions on the issue, including two threads on SuperUser: Laptop's disk usage is always 100% and freezes after few seconds ...
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How to see usage of each core in Windows 10?

The Performance tab of the Task Manager shows this: i.e. the CPU usage, and the number of cores (and logical cores) I have available. Can I get a graph like this for each core to see whether ...
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Disk usage spikes to 100% & Transfer speeds drop to 0 then computer locks up whenever doing a file transfer

I've done a bit of searching but haven't been able to figure out what I can do that works. My HDD seems to be on the fritz so I am trying to backup my emails (2GB) to an external drive so I can swap ...
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How does Task Manager differentiate "Windows Processes" in Win10

I have a number of shell extensions for various development projects, and they tend to cause a lot of issues with Windows Explorer. By far the most common is that the Start Menu won't pop up when ...
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Is my internet traffic going through (3rd party) VPN in Windows10?

When I use a third party VPN program in windows it should use all the bandwidth according to the task manager right? (Or at least should be the only one using any bandwidth) But if another program ...
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How to prevent access to chrome's task manager

Hi so in order to prevent extensions from being killed I'm trying to figure out how to prevent access to chrome's task manager. I am well aware people have asked this before on superuser, but there ...
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How to find Skype in Windows automatic startup

I'm currently trying to rid a Windows 10 computer of all unnecessary automatic startup programs, because it had problems with being terribly slow even without starting any programs manually. One such ...
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Task Manager shows high power usage while gaming

I turned on my computer today and all of a sudden my power usage was spiking for everything. Not just in games but when i open task manager and watch videos... I have never seen this happen on my ...
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