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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How can I make Windows Task Manager keep it's position and size upon reopening?
When I open Windows Task Manager in Windows XP with SP3 it opens in the top left corner and it occupies a very small part of the screen. If I resize and reposition it to fill most of the screen when I ...
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automatic end useless processes
in WIN 7 if you open windows with administrator username, you will have lots and lots of procceses active.
But if I login with guest I will have 70% less processes, but still enough for what I need. ...
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Find process from window or vice versa in task manager?
I have multiple instances of an app running. One of the instances is frozen and I want to end it forcefully in Task Manager, while preserving all others.
I'm trying to find it in Task Manager but I ...
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Unable To Change Process Priority On Windows 11 22H2
This happened to me recently after updating to the latest update for Windows 11. When I go to Task Manager and try to change the process priority, I am getting an access denied.
I tried restarting ...
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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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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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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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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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how to close a specific instance of a process using nircmd?
I have been using the following command to try closing the notepad file "temp.txt" opened on the windows.
nircmd win close title "temp.txt"
But this command seems not to work.
If I try the below ...
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Why would a single process in Google Chrome use over 2GB of RAM?
I noticed that my Task Manager icon in the taskbar showed high resource usage, so I opened it to find that a single Chrome process was using over 2GB of RAM*. By closing Chrome tabs one at a time, I ...
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How do I "End process tree" in Windows 10?
I want to delete a link of processes in Windows 10. In Windows 7 all you had to do was right click a process and hit "End process tree". How do you do that in Windows 10?
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What happens if I create a process that already exists in the task manager?
I am developing an application in C # with the assembly name of one of the windows processes like svchost.exe, taskmgr.exe, winlogon.exe, etc. And I would like to know if this could cause some ...
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how to see which process is using which port in windows 8
I am trying to start the Tomcat server at my pc by eclipse. But it is showing the following message
Several ports (8005, 8080, 8009) required by Tomcat v8.0 Server at localhost are already in use. ...
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windows 10 equivalent to windows 7 "end process"
In windows 7, when I program hangs, I call up the task list. If I do "end task" it will ask if I want to "Wait for the program to close", or "End now". Whichever option I choose, it seems to just hang ...
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Windows 7 shows 0 Free memory for 4 GB installed RAM
Laptop: Dell Inspiron 1525 Core-2-Duo
Pre-installed RAM: 2GB
Additional installed RAM: 2GB
OS: Windows 7
I have just installed extra 2 GB of RAM in Windows 7 and now it shows total 4 GB RAM.
After ...
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Record task manager history while on lock screen
It appears as though the history in the task manager doesn't get recorded while the computer is on the lock screen. I have a PC I'm using as a server and I would like to see the last 4 minutes of ...
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Is there a task manager for Windows 7 that shows HDD activity in percent for every process (like in Windows 8)? [duplicate]
I'm looking for a task manager for Windows 7 that shows which process is currently reading/writing on my HDD. I like how the Windows 8 and Windows 10 task manager shows the HDD activity in percent for ...
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Unusual disk use on Windows 8.1 100% disk usage ONLY when running particular programs
by opening the task manager I found out this weird thing happening:
The disk usage spikes to 95-100% when I am running programs such as C-Cleaner, or Avast.
Sometimes it shows a regular pattern: it ...
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Applications do not start again after having been shut down through task manager
Quite often I shut down a software application through taskmanager because it freezes/gives an error/etc.. After that, when I try to restart the application (simply by double-clicking its shortcut), ...
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Cancel AVG through task manager gives "Access Denied"
When I start up my computer (windows 7), AVG starts up. Usually this isnt a bad thing, but recently it's been taking up close to 40 percent of the listed CPU according to task manager. When I right-...
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Accidently stopped some services in svchost
I stopped some of the services in svchost.exe in Windows 8 and now I am not able open task manager as it throws error.
When I checked in PowerShell all those services are stopped. Even services.msc ...
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summarize memory use task manager
There are multiple processes (several dozens) running on a Windows 7 Pro machine. They have the same Image Name (column Image Name in Windows Task Manager), but can take various amount of memory (...
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How to export Windows Task Manager's Information/Tabs?
Is there a way to export the information contain within the Windows Task Manager? I know how to export the processes tab but I'm more interested on the Users Tab.
Any help will be greatly appreciated....
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Why won't Task Manager stay open on WIndows 8?
I can't use Task Manager on Windows 8.
Whichever way I open it (keyboard shortcuts, .exe in System32, taskbar right-click menu), it only stays open for second. It does not simply freeze and crash as ...
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Why are there so many duplicates of "explorer.exe" running?
In my Windows 7 task manager, there are 16 instances of explorer.exe running. Where is this coming from?
I thought perhaps I had inadvertently enabled the option of Windows replicating an instance ...
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No Other User In Task Manager Users Tab Windows 7
I want to ask why there is only me on Task Manager's Users tab.
Originally I wanted to be able to chat with other clients on my local network using msg command, but I can't found any other user.
How ...
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Why is "sqlservr" causing regular CPU spikes?
I have checked the services, CPU and I have noticed that indeed it is sqlservr.exe that grabs the attention of my CPU (the next screenshot shows a short peak in sqlservr's CPU usage).
It happens ...
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Windows task Manager shows wrong memory?
Guess what it the memory on my system from below?
It is 3GB but it show 4.8? Why
On my different computer, it is running Windows Server 2003, it has 2 GB installed but it show 4GB (Limit field).
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What's making my Windows 7 PC run so slow?
Today, my computer at work has been acting very slow. There seems to be a lot of lag that occurs between certain operations. For example, when one window has the focus and you click on another ...
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Bug in display 'Windows 7 Task manager'
I've installed Windows 7 on my computer. When I run the 'Windows Task manager', Menus and Tab Pages are not seen. Please help to solve it.
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In Windows XP Task Manager, shows 150+ processes running?
Almost every morning my laptop slows or stops. When I bring up task manager it usually shows something between 80 and 150 line items called Task Manager, and I have to close them down one at a time to ...
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Task Manager: Overall cpu usage + idle process cpu usage > 100%
On Windows XP SP3, in Task Manager I assume that the "System Idle Process" is not counted as part of the overal "CPU Usage", therefore at any time the sum of both should be 100%, which seems to be ...
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How to stop WinMail (Vista Home Premium) from starting up automatically?
Task Manager / Processes shows WinMail.exe;
I don't want it to be there automatically, given that it doesn't even work! (says please use Windows Live Mail etc).
So i looked in Startup folder, and ...
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Can't change tasks to realtime priotity
I just want to change a running task's priority to realtime, but the taskmanager won't let me do it. If I try it, it'll just tell me that it can't change to realtime and then changes it to high ...
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Network usage is always showing 0% in task manager
I have been facing this issue that the Task manager is always showing the Network utilization percentage as 0% even though I'm using it, this problem starts some days before only before that it worked ...
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How to cycle between instances of the same apps quickly with a lot of apps open or to cycle between apps in the main monitor [duplicate]
Is there any way without 3rd party programs to cycle between multiple instances of the same app without the use of 3rd party software in Windows 10?
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Why does Windows Task Manager show two ethernet connections with different throughputs if all my traffic is routed through the VPN?
I am running Windows 10. I have a VPN installed, through which - as I understand it - all my internet traffic is routed through at a system / OS level.
When I look at Task Manager, I can see two ...
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How to see the commands that are executed by a silent cmd.exe
The cmd.exe process is taking up resources on a server, I would like to see what it is running.
How can I do it?
Task Manager
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Some keys stop working, and it's not my keyboard
The keys 1/2/3/4 stop working randomly.
It's not a keyboard problem, because if I change my keyboard, the problem persists.
The problem fixes spontaneously, or after I restart the PC.
It's always the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Task manager shows high CPU but 'user' shows differently
I've been having a recent problem lately with my CPU usage. It's literally always around 90%-100% but in task manager under 'user' it says differently. Even when I do a rough calculation of the ...
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CPU usage pegged at 100% on windows vista [duplicate]
According to Task Manager the CPU Usage is 100% but when I click on the "Processes" and sort by CPU in descending order I see that the process using the most CPU is taskmgr.exe at 02%. All the others ...
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Suggestions on how to run a very large Macro
I have an excel macro that I've estimated could take anywhere from 2-7 days (with my current computer) if I've received enough data to process.
Is this a feasible task with my Windows 10 Toshiba i3 ...
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MS Paint running in task manager but not displaying on screen nor visible in task bar Win 7 32bit
MS Paint (mspaint.exe) no longer displays on screen when I click on the shortcut in the start up menu or open the program by any other method. If I look in the task manage I will see and instance of ...
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How to log application runs with as much detail as possible?
On windows I have Powershell program running every hour ( that is what I have noticed coming up on the Task Bar.
I have tried to use Sysinternals Autostart and Process Explorer to capture what it is ...