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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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Opening task manager takes an incredibly long time

This happens on all my windows 8 devices. When I press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC, or just start the task manager in any other way, it always takes a long time to open - Something around 45 seconds to 2 ...
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Extremely high memory usage on Desktop Window Manager

My desktop window manager is just taking too much memory for no reason. I was playing a game that had pretty average memory usage for a game (Apex Legends - 2000MB ish) before editing a word document ...
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Reorder Windows Task Manager Performance Tab Items

Is it possible to re-order the items listed in the Performance Tab in Windows Task Manager? Such as moving the "WiFi" item up to the top? Saw a similar post with no responses. Ordering Task ...
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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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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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Set priority of process in Windows 10 - access denied

In Windows 10 after loading Task Manager you have to click the Details tab to see the processes, not the Processes tab, but now when I right-click a process, click Set priority and choose low, I get ...
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Display Windows Task Manager memory usage in MB

Does anyome know any hack where we can modify to display memory usage in MB and not in kb in 'windows task manager's processes' Its not showstopeper but definately a thing I'll like to see.
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Which process killed my process

One of my applications starts java.exe, but in between this 'java.exe' is killed by some other process. How can I know which process kills the java.exe. I am using Windows XP SP 2.
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Show dial up connection status in Task Manager

In Windows 8.1, Task Manager shows Wi-Fi, Disk, CPU usage graph in Performance tab. But, it doesn't shows usage of a dial up internet connection. How can I add dial up stats in task manager. Here are ...
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Find out what is being cached in memory by Windows

Windows maintains a memory cache of frequently accessed items: Is it possible to view the cache? Can I see what files and what portion of each file are being cached?
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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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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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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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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 open the 'Details' tab by default in Win10 Task Manager?

The title is self-explanatory. The 'Processes' tab is opened by default. How can I change it to the 'Details' tab?
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Task Manager sometimes starts at the top left corner and is very small

I want to preface this by saying that I naively installed some malware a few months ago and even though I tried everything to repair my mistake, my computer still seems to have kept some scars from it ...
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windows 10 task manager startup disable button is greyed out

windows 10 task manager startup disable button is greyed out but this is understandable as I am a standard user. I want to disable startup item from task manager. but the button is disabled. and ...
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where does Windows Task Manager measure network data rate

I am trying to build a 10Gbps Ethernet channel between an FPGA and a Windows 7 PC. For a rough estimate, I measured the bandwidth usage of the link using Windows Task Manager's Network Tab. Later I ...
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Sudden change in task kill behavior on Windows Server 2012 (Access Denied)

After a reboot on a machine (WS2012-R2), I observed that I could no longer use the "Details" tab in Task Manager to kill a process that I have run at startup. After checking solutions from other ...
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Why Chrome use sometimes a same process for at least two different tab?

I have noticed in the Chrome task manager that some tabs was linked and sharing the same process: There is no link between these pages, one is not the referer of the other, and they have not the same ...
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Removing or disabling Chrome’s Task Manager with a batch-file

I am trying to find a way to either disable or completely remove Chrome’s Task Manager. My proposed solution involves using a batch-file running in the background to detect if the Chrome Task Manager ...
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What does "Disk active time" mean in task manager?

I've read online that "disk active time" means something like the amount of total time the disk spends on IO activity. I'm kind of confused about what that means. Also, on a virtual machine, what ...
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taskmgr.exe - Wrong Volume

The other day my girlfriend used my computer to use one of those additional resource CD's that come with text books. This particular CD worked by acting like what seemed like a web server that hosted ...
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The Windows shutdown sound task I created is cut off

I am doing a little project to challenge myself as I love messing around with computers. A project I started long ago was to try and create a shutdown sound for my Windows 10 OS on my computer. I did ...
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My hard disk suddenly active at 100% in Task Manager

I was trying to install something on my computer with the installation source being disk D, but I noticed a slow installation process, so I went to Task Manager and I see the disk drive D running at ...
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Windows 10 task manager doesn't show process with high CPU uasge

while ago I noticed that CPU usage is high even the sound of my laptop fan increases but when i open the task manager to detect the Process that consumes CPU usage the task manager shows me that the ...
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Windows 11 almost 6 gigabytes of system memory are hidden and not available

I'm using the latest version of the Windows 11 and I'm curious where almost 6 gigabytes of the system RAM memory disappear. I have 32 Gigs of RAM installed in the system. According to the task manager,...
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How to let Task-Manager of Windows 10 start minimized at start-up?

I have the Windows task mananger in the start-up/autostart directory, so that it does start at login. C:\Users\[myusername]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Type: Taskmgr....
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Windows 10 memory usage incorrectly shown in Task Manager after WSL-2 install & uninstalling won't fix it

Why Windows Task manager shows total memory usage higher than the aggregate of memory usage of all the processes? My system has 4GB physical memory. Now it is always around 65% full even if I didn't ...
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Task manager showing absurdly high network throughput in VM

I've got an instance of Windows 10 running in a KVM instance and the task manager in it shows ridiculously high total network throughput (150-900 Gbps upload and download on a 1Gbps link). Has anyone ...
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Task manager disk performance: MB/s or MiB/s?

Does the Windows Task Manager display the disk throughput numbers in MB/s (1000-based) or MiB/s (1024-based)?
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Choose which devices to show in Task Manager Performace tab

Since I installed VMware Workstation 16 Player, it added 2 "devices" to the task manager Performance tab: VMware Network Adapter VMnet1 and VMware Network Adapter VMnet8. They don't give me ...
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Windows 10 Task Manager (Process tab) not showing VBScripts (i.e. wscript processes)

I'm working on a VBScript to show a msgbox if a system condition is hit (it's running a loop which sleeps after each iteration). The issue: I've noted that, when I run the script, it doesn't actually ...
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Can't terminate a task from Task Manager

I'm trying to delete a process that is running on my Windows 10 machine but it's not viewable in Task Manager. The only way I can see the process is using "Tasklist" in a command prompt or ...
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How do I prevent two different programs running at the same time?

I have two quality programs Macrium reflect, and Zoomtext 2021 on the same laptop. Both work fine separately, but if Zt.exe and ReflectMonitor.exe are running simultaneously CPU usage is too high. How ...
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Task Manager crashes after enabling SVM

I have Windows 10 Pro, build 19042.746; AMD Ryzen 5 2600; MSI B450M-A PRO MAX. I installed WSL2 (Ubuntu) and enabled virtualization (SVM) in BIOS, and the WSL works fine. But then I noticed that Task ...
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Windows 10 task manager not showing mspdbsrv.exe process

It seems that Task Manager in Windows 10 is not showing all running processes. For example, it never shows mspdbsrv.exe from Visual Studio. Is this a bug or a feature? Is it hardcoded to hide this ...
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What to add to get the committed memory size on windows?

According to task manager my committed memory is 7.1 GB but I can only see my processes using around 3.6GB I'm using Powershell and Get-Process | Select Name, PagedMemorySize, PrivateMemorySize to get ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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