Discover why Process Explorer beats Windows Task Manager as a great alternative for task management, providing deeper insights and faster PC fixes.

Windows Task Manager has evolved over the years, and the version in Windows 11 is elegant and more feature-rich. However, if you are an admin or power user, you might be looking for something that’s ...

Windows Task Manager keeps a tight check on applications, processes, and services running on your PC. If any of them is causing a slowdown, it lets you close or end that process. If the Task Manager ...

A mainstay of IT's working class, Microsoft's Process Explorer update is available, with even more PC troubleshooting tools I can’t imagine troubleshooting a Windows PC without Process Explorer. Users ...

Closing every possible program can help you eke out more endurance when your laptop is running low on battery. But not every program fully closes when you exit its window, and sometimes background ...

Just because you've closed a window doesn't mean that Windows has killed the process. Sometimes the operating system keeps processes running in the background so that when you run a new instance, it ...

When the CPU utilization on a computer is high, games become less responsive, frame rate goes down, and gameplay stutters. To diagnose these problems, users will commonly open process manager ...

There are certain situations when you would want to find the process start and end time in Windows 11/10. For example, as you try to troubleshoot an application, or if there are too many processes ...

Task Manager is one of the most useful diagnostic and troubleshooting tools in Windows. Press its keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+Esc, or use the option on the Quick Link menu, and you're greeted with ...

One reason to use the Task Manager in Windows is to see if any of the apps running on your computer are misbehaving or using a disproportionate amount of resources. But what do you do when the ...

Hold on. Don’t just reboot your Windows 7 PC. I realize that rebooting is the go-to solution when a program won’t shut down, or the system starts dragging or acting wonky, but there is another way.