Task managers can serve as a simple to-list, but good ones can be used as simple project/time managers. There are online managers for those who prefer to work in a browser, and the better ones are ...

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 ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

On Tuesday, November 28, HP issued a statement regarding recent claims that the company secretly installs software on its laptops. The complaints stem from a recent awareness of a service called HP ...

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.

Since the advent of Windows in the early '90s, the saving grace of many panicked users has been the combination of the CTRL, ALT, and DEL keys. This holdover keyboard code from IBM's heyday in the ...

A new Windows 11 bug causes Task Manager to keep duplicating. Each time you close and reopen the tool, another instance launches. To avoid this, you'll have to close Task Manager from Task Manager ...

The Windows Task Manager is one of the most widely used apps in the Windows operating system. It has a long history, having first shown up in early versions of Windows as a simple utility to close and ...

The Windows Task Manager helps get information about computer performance, running applications, processes and more. In short, you can use the handy Windows tool to start or end certain programs. It ...