App History and Startup Apps App History, the third tab in Task Manager uses the same column format to organize data. A brief description of the column titles is below: Name: The application or process’s name CPU Time: Indicates the total CPU time consumed by […]
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Users, Details, Services Users The fifth tab in Task Manager is Users. The first column lists all user accounts currently signed in. If you expand the name of a user, you will get a list of the processes equal to the number shown to the
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Understanding Resource Monitor The Resource Monitor Screen allows you to see exactly what is happening for each resource. It provides a similar but more detailed view than the Performance tab. The Menu has three options: File – Save Settings As: Saves the current configuration settings
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Windows Task Manager (Basics) Windows Task Manager is a powerful application that is part of the Windows OS. It gives valuable information and insight into system resource usage. This group of articles details each aspect of Task Manager, how to perform the functions, and then
Performance View Performance, the second tab in the Task Manager is the only tab that is laid out differently between versions. Both have the same functionality, but the layout of the screens is just different enough to believe one option is missing. In Windows 10
Processes Part 2 In this second article on Processes, I will be covering how to “End” or “Run a new task” and how to change your column headers to give you the maximum information on a running task. How to “kill” SPAM notices and popups
Processes Screen The functions contained on the Processes screen of Task Manager called for more than one article of explanation. In Part 1, I try to detail the numerous views available by adding additional headers and having the ability to sort the running processes by
Windows 10 Users Get Good News Windows has just released good news for those who want to keep Windows 10 a while longer and also for some users who could not upgrade because of a “Compatibility Hold”. Keeping Windows 10 If you are one of
How To Secure Files On Your Phone To quote the Beatles: “Everybody’s got something to hide except for me and my monkey”. It doesn’t matter if it is something you might need but don’t want available to others like your Social Security Number, banking information,
Understanding DNS DNS stands for Domain Name System a protocol that is set by your internet provider. DNS is responsible for translating our human expressions like www.google.com into a unique IP address that computers use to communicate over the internet. Whenever you or a program
What Should You Upgrade RAM vs Storage Remember when your computer felt fast? Boot times while not fantastic, were acceptable? Even logging into your favorite websites was not a problem. Now you’re wondering if you should spring for a new one or upgrade. Before you
RAM vs Storage (A supplement for “Upgrading Your Computer) Random Access Memory (RAM) is the physical memory of your system. It is super-fast and helps your PC run smoothly. To give you an example of its speed, NVMe SSDs can achieve up to 7,000 MB/s
Upgrading To An SSD (A Supplement to Upgrading Your Computer) Maybe the biggest room for improvement when trying to increase the speed of your PC is to upgrade your Hard Disk Drive (HDD) with an equal-sized or larger Solid State Drive (SSD). The process is
How To Keep Your Printer On It has been a while since I purchased a new printer and was very annoyed when it would continually go into sleep mode. Having to turn on the printer before printing remotely from my mobile devices and even from
