Dave Plummer built the original Windows Task Manager at Microsoft over thirty years ago. Thanks to Claude, his new version ...

Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has published an impressive and modern Task Manager replacement called Task Manager OG (TMOG).

Autoruns shows you everything that runs when you boot your PC ...

But if you're anything like me and like digging a little deeper, Task Manager doesn't show nearly as much information as ...

The fastest way to open Task Manager in Windows 10 is by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc. You can also use Ctrl+Alt+Delete or right-click the taskbar to access Task Manager. If you prefer using the mouse, ...

No Windows experience is complete without occasionally opening the Task Manager to figure out which application is using all of your RAM, or to end a program that has been frozen for ten minutes with ...

Windows is great at letting users multitask, and one of the reasons why it is great is its Task Manager. It lets you manage all running programs, and kill the programs that are causing issues. The ...

Gustave Monce, a developer who has brought Windows 11 to the Lumia 950 XL, has discovered an early version of a new Task Manager, an app that Microsoft has not updated in years. Supposedly, the new ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

The optional October 2025 update can cause multiple Task Manager instances to run in the background. The optional October 2025 update can cause multiple Task Manager instances to run in the ...

You're using the new Windows 11 Task Manager, but you like the old Task Manager better? No problem: With this trick, you can start the old task manager immediately. Every Windows user should know how ...

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.