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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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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The task manager is completely crazy. The math doesnt even add up to the complete CPU or CPU usage
As you can see, the math doesn't even add up to the actual usage
This has been happening ever since I have been using my monitor on my laptop. Please do help.
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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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Why doesn't sum of of the values in the commit size in the processes view match the commit size in the performance view in the Windows Task Manager?
Commit Size in the Processes view:
Commit size in the Performance view:
Why doesn't sum of of the values in the Commit Size in the Processes view match the commit size in the Performance view in the ...
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How does the Windows Task Manager compute the link speed for each network adapter?
The Windows Task Manager shows the link speed for each network adapter?
Sometimes the link speed oscillates (between 130 and 144 Mbps in the example
below, where the network adapter is a USB WiFi ...
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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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Why my processes are connecting to 3rd party software website [duplicate]
After installing the process hacker I noticed that in-network section most of the processes is connecting to a 3rd party software called "partitionwizard" both of the local and remote ...
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Nonexistent file path in Task Manager
While browsing through the start-up tab in Task Manager I came across an entry called "Program" with no icon, supposedly located at "C:\Program" Files (x86\FKL\emsvc.exe.
Searching ...
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Pressing Alt+Tab causes Microsoft Edge's to switch into tab rather than app
tl;dr Sometimes when I hit Left Alt+Tab in Microsoft Edge, I am switching to another tab (like I'd press Ctrl+Tab) instead of switching to some other app in Windows 10. This is terribly annoying and ...
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CPU being used up by some background process
I have a fairly new windows 10 laptop that I've been using, and today it was running very slowly. I opened up my task manager and found these background processes that are collectively taking up ...
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How do I remove an unknown program from Startup tab of the Task Manager?
I have an entry that simply says "Program" with no file location or details about what made this entry into my Startup items in Task Manager. I had followed the advice in another superuser ...
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Why the Task Manager automatically does not start from the Startup folder at user log on?
I want the Task Manager to be able start automatically each time when user login to the Windows. The following article describes how to Add an app to run automatically at startup in Windows 10:
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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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Unnamed process in Task Manager
I have a question ... When I enter the Task Manager, I notice that there are unnamed processes running.
After going into details of this process, I notice that it is the legitimate Windows process ...
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Is there a tool to see task manager that is historical? How do I investigate?
My task manager shows 100% CPU usage. It doesn't show what programs are running.
I tried to take screenshot and nothing is shown. So I wait while playing games. After a while I got this
It was empty ...
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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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Missing memory usage on processes list
Current memory used based on Task Manager processes list is around 2gb since google chrome is the most memory hungry on the list.
But on performance tab, I've been using 7gb.
Is there something or ...
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Task manager shows RAM is full but with what? Numbers don't add up [duplicate]
There's 16 GB RAM and Task Manager shows it as full. The other tab where I can see the breakdown of what's taking the space doesn't show it. What is taking all this space and how can I actually see it?...
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Python in Task Manager or Background Services in Windows?
I just installed Python on Windows system. Just like any software, curious if Python has a background service or program running in Task Manager or Services, when I'm not actually using the program. ...
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Why is my ram usage so high with nothing running? (30% used from 16Gb ram)
Task Manager Performance
Task Manager Process
I used Avast antivirus for some time and the ram used was like this, but a week ago I uninstalled it and it is still 30% usage (4.8Gb from 16Gb 3200mHz ...
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How to automate setting Task Manager from its default simple view to More Details view?
I am working on automated init new machine script.
One of a boring repeated todos on new machine to switch the Task Manager to detailed view when first started.
Is there any way to automate this in ...
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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 shows thousands of processes named "ls", how do I find out what is causing this and stop it? [duplicate]
Recently when trying to find out why my computer was slowing down, I saw on Task Manager (which is taking several seconds to open, if it opens correctly at all) that there were thousands of entries ...
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How to gracefully terminate an application via SSH on Windows 10?
I've searched far and wide for this through several similar questions, but none of them have worked so far.
Here is my problem: I have two computers, A running Windows 10 and B running Linux. I have ...
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what does the uptime numbers on windows task manager mean?
when i took this picture i had an uptime of 7:14:06:03 , what do those numbers mean?
(i'm GUESSING it means days:hours:minutes:seconds , but that's just a guess)
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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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In Win10 is there a fool proof way of discovering which App is displaying a given pop-up?
I'm working on re-purposing a Win10 laptop that has some security feature whereby all USB disks have to be approved and registered. I cannot remove that feature because I cannot see which app, service ...
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Windows Task Manager Cannot Get Network Usage After Create Network Bridge
My task manager is okay before I create bridge for my home network.
After create a bridge between Wifi and Ethernet like this
My network usage totally cannot show on task manager, But internet and ...
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About Malware occupying memory [duplicate]
Can a malware occupy memory without getting noticed by or displayed in "Windows Task Manager"? How can we detect such malware, if any? Can you give examples of such malware?
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Client Server Runtime Process and Desktop Window Manager consumes my GPU
Here is it
Why and how to retake my GPU bak for me? :)
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I deleted dllhost.exe. How can I get it back?
I was curious about COM Surrogate in my task manager. I looked up the file, I saw and saw the word virus repeated multiple times which caused me to quickly permanently remove dllhost.exe from my PC. ...
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High power usage? [duplicate]
I just built a pc with 1050ti. I'll get straight to the point.. When I play games like minecraft with shaders on it or if I render a project in blender I see that the task manager shows that the power ...
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How to kill an application in one go when there are multiple instances
At the moment, Slack has hung for me. Some times it's Chrome, sometimes another app.
Right clicking the icon in the task bar and choosing close does not close the application
I want to kill it in Task ...
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