Managing Programs and Processes
Rob Tidrow, Jim Boyce, Jeffrey R. Shapiro · 2017
The Windows 10 Task Manager is a handy tool for terminating hung programs and for monitoring computer resource usage. Task Manager also provides detailed information that's of interest only to programmers and network administrators. The Performance tab in Task Manager provides both graphical and numeric summaries of CPU, memory, disk, and network hardware resource usage. The Performance charts are useful for identifying major performance bottlenecks. Whereas applications usually run in windows and are listed on the Processes tab in Task Manager, processes have no program window. The Processes tab shows its information in columns. To help user differentiate between data values, Windows 10 uses a “heat map” paradigm. The Details tab on Task Manager provides a ways to analyze performance issues with running processes. The Users tab in Task Manager displays information about the user accounts. The Users tab shows the names of people currently logged in to the computer.