Windows 11 is far from perfect, but it does make Task Manager significantly better. It's modern, has a search bar, and easy-to-understand graphs. But what are some of the lesser-known features of the ...

You've probably done it yourself: you need to know how hard a given application is hitting your CPU, so you pull up Windows' Task Manager to check the CPU utilization. For a casual inquiry, this is ...

Catch up with this week's Microsoft stories in our weekly recap, including long-anticipated taskbar fixes in Windows 11, ...

After installing the optional update KB5067036 for Windows 11 25H2 or 24H2, when you try to close the Task Manager by clicking the “X” in the upper right corner, it reappears. The Task Manager briefly ...

To disable startup applications on Windows 11, open the Settings app and navigate to Apps > Startup, and click the toggle next to the app you want to disable. Windows 10 also provides options to ...

Windows 11 has a feature that allows you to end a task directly from the taskbar and close multiple open windows at once, but it is turned off by default. IT news site BleepingComputer explains how to ...

If Task Manager crashes, you can restart it by hitting Ctrl-Shift-Esc. Windows will first attempt to revive the hung version -- if it can't, it'll open a new window for you after a maximum of 10 ...

When a Windows 11 application hangs, the normal recourse is to open up the Task Manager, dig through the list of running processes, and use the End Task option in that utility. But there's another way ...

Microsoft recommends that users install the latest Patch Tuesday update KB5046617 to fix a Windows 11 24H2 Task Manager bug. Today is the second Tuesday of the month, and Microsoft has released its ...

Task Manager’s creator, Dave Plummer unveils a futuristic AI dashboard concept with graphs, gauges, and synthwave beats.