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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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 force chrome task manager to end a task
I am using an administrator-restricted Chromebook and things can often get out of hand, so naturally like any PC user I'd open the task manager (chrome task manager) and when I go to close the ...
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My RAM usage is at 68% and I don't know why
Here are screenshots of my current issue:
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Do I have a memory leak? Zombie Handlers? What do I do? Never had this issue before..
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Normal for 17 instances of Node.js JavaScript Runtime to be loaded into memory when the only open application windows are Windows Update and taskmgr?
Is it normal for 17 instances of Node.js JavaScript Runtime to be loaded into memory when the only open application windows are Windows Update and Task Manager? They average about 3MB RAM consumption ...
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Task Manager pauses itself
My Task Manager randomly pauses itself. That's very annoying. It seems to be random. I keep it open in the background and after half a day it's paused. Sometimes it works for days. Any way to fix this?...
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Task Manager: Make GPU Utilization Percentage Reflect CUDA
I am specifically asking about the utilization as shown in the left-hand (overview) panel, not about the utilization as shown in the right hand (main / detailed view) panel.
I do a lot of ...
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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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Memory usage not adding up inside Task Manager [closed]
Task manager recognises that I have 16GB of ram actually installed in the performance tab, but inside the processes tab, looking at the percentage of memory used in total by all apps and processes and ...
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Task Manager process list shows multiple abnormalities, processes out of place
First, it's not the issue about so many instances of Google Chrome in the process list in the task manager. I consider myself pretty clueful, so technical answers are welcome. Drilling down into the ...
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What does this numbers in bracket mean?
I don't have 14 firefox opened but task managers showing "14":
What does this numbers in brackets mean?
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Windows 10 Task Manager's border lines are absent on the right / bottom
I disabled shadows in SystemPropertiesPerformance.exe show shadows under windows and set Title bars and windows borders in "Colors" settings and noticed the Task Manager window is missing ...
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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 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
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Why Would Windows 10 Task Manager's Details Show Some Processes' Operating System Context As An Older Version?
I have a Windows 10 Machine, but as I was looking at the Task Manager's Details tab, I saw the corresponding "Operating System Context" entry of some processes show an older OS version. The ...
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Windows Task Manager Startup Apps empty
Three weeks ago I upgraded from Windows 10 to 11 and I just happened to look at the Startup Apps section of the Task Manager and it is empty and says
There are no startup items to display
There are ...
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How to log the GPU usage?
background
When the display is turned off after a long time without operation, the usage of the GPU gets almost full (with win10 sleep function off). And when I'm back, the usage is also back to ...
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How to close multiple tasks which remain suspended in the background regularly?
On one of the Windows server, I have multiple (100-350 instances) instance of a task left in suspended state which I want to kill automatically as they just eat ram and doesn't do anything. I also ...
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application without any network communication actually shows network traffic in Task Manager - how is it possible?
I created an application (in Qt/C++) and when run it, I can see in TaskManager that the process associated with this application exhibits some network communication (0.1 Mbps - while the application ...
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`taskmgr.exe` The requested operation requires elevation [duplicate]
I tried to auto start the taskmgr.exe on the user login by creating a shortcut of Task Manager in the startup folder, as it described on the Microsoft forum:
Open Run, type and enter shell:...
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How do you change the name shown in Task Manager for a running process (in particular a sub-process of the main executable) [closed]
Unlike on Linux or macOS, I haven't been able to find an API to change the process name of a running process (or in the case I care about, a sub-process). I'd want it to still appear under the main ...
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How does Windows monitors/calculates GPU utilization?
I've been coding in CUDA recently, and I launched 2^31 kernels onto my GPU to test out. The program took around 63 seconds to complete, but my GPU utilization (seen in Windows Task Manager) didn't get ...
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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?
Or a way to only cycle between apps on the monitor ...
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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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Task manager inconstent CPU load report
Task manager constantly shows that my CPU usage is about 10% when the computer is idle:
But when I look into details it constantly shows the "System Idle Process" consumes 98% - 99% CPU:
I ...
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Windows File Explorer Icon is wrong in Task Manager
For some reason my Windows 11 File Explorer Icon is wrong in task manager, I tried rebuilding the cache and repair install, deleted all IconCache_x files and still the same.
Please note that I used an ...
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Immediate task kill for Windows 10/11?
I have a full screen application that sometimes hangs up and then suddenly slows my entire PC down my littering the system memory and hogging the CPU at 100% load. I know that you can kill apps using ...
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Single Windows User using less than the total amount of resources?
The percentages of resources aren't the same, even though there's only a single user. Anyone know anything about this?
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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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End task when access is denied (even when using cmd taskkill / powershell kill)
I have found a process running on my computer "rsEngineSvc.exe" and i want to uninstall this application from my laptop, meaning i must end the process to do so.
I have tried using taskkill ...
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Windows 10: Can you configure the mapping of processes to "Applications" in Task Manager?
Is there a configuration file or registry thing or maybe even a tool to change which processes are attributed to which "Application" in Task Manager? I would like to map all the compiler ...
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Why does Farm Simulator crash with GPU "3D-Engine" operating at full capacity?
My Question sounds odd at first, but I then tried running a DIFFERENT game (Asphalt 9) on a DIFFERENT PC (Intel NUC) and the "3D" graph at the GPU section in TaskManager spikes at 100% as ...
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Is there a way to force regedit and task manager to use dark theme in W10?
When using dark theme in Windows 10 and in browser on almost all sites, its extremely annoying that when occasionally you need to pop up Task Manager or regedit it breaks all the dark immersion. Is ...
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Task Manager - Sort by average or maximum CPU
Very often one wants to sort the processes in task manager according to CPU usage. But CPU usage fluctuate very quickly, so entries on the list jump around and your reading ability will be racing ...
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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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Firefox Portable : "Another instance [...] is already running" but taskkill says there is no running instance
I wanted to change the folder from which I run FireFoxPortable, but now I get this when trying to open Firefox :
"Another instance of Firefox is already running."
But when I run taskkill :
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Why is my computer slow (usually on startup) even though Task Manager doesn't show anything terrible?
For the past few months, my computer has been running slow on startup. This only happens every now and then, and it seems completely random. It sometimes goes away for a week or two, but then comes ...
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Why does ethernet and wifi show the same graph in task manager?
In my work laptop, I am using VPN and when I open Task Manager in Windows, Ethernet and Wifi show the same graph. I am only connected to wifi and have no ethernet cable attached to it.
I was wondering ...
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Windows 11 high CPU usage on window resizing
I opened Task Manager. When I put the mouse in its window's border and resize the window rapidly, make it bigger then make it smaller and doing this continuously for a few seconds, strangely CPU usage ...
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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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Why would Task Manager show Windows Camera Frame Service under an app that doesn't use a camera?
Task Manager shows "Windows Camera Frame Service" active under an app. But the app doesn't use the camera for anything. Indeed, the app is an intellectual property app that, were it known ...
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How to eliminate all Total AV files / running in task manager as amsprotectedservice / antimalware SDK protected services / end task is denied
Running Windows 10. Total AV antimalware --- How to completely eliminate program and all residual files. I removed via uninstall however aspects of the program still remain and are showing as running ...
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Windows Task Manager Memory resource values in percents and values do not match
I have 8GB RAM in my Windows 11 PC. The screenshot below shows that chrome is using about 800MB of RAM which is around 10% of the total RAM installed (800MB is around 10% of 8GB). But after I right ...
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How to get which folders are currently open in explorer?
The folders which are open are shown in taskmanager. Perhaps there is a way to access this information with batch or powershell or third party command-line?
I have also enabled the Restore previous ...
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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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Autorun program hidden from Task Manager
Is there are way to Autorun an executable on Windows at system startup, using the registry, or anything else which hides the start entry from the Task Manager?
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Windows 10 - How can I figure out which software is allocating how much RAM
In the task manager under the "performance" tab it says that 24,7 GB of my 32 GB are in use.
So I tried to figure out, what is using all this RAM. On the tab "user" it says only 2....
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RAM usage way higher than Task Manager list can explain on Windows 10
I recently upgraded my RAM modules from 16GB total to 64GB total. Before, when I for example trained a deep learning model in python with 2 chrome tabs open, it used 4-6GB RAM and the RAM usage in ...
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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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Taskkill can't end process but taskmanager can [closed]
I recently found out something interesting: I can't kill tasks with taskkill but the Task-Manager kills them. I can end the process with the task manager just fine, but when I try it with taskkill, it ...
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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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