

The Performance tab of the Windows Task Manager.
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By clicking the Services button you can bring up the Services application, where you have full control over your services. By right-clicking on a service, you can start a stopped service, stop a running service, or immediately go to the process using a service. The Services tab displays information about the Windows services installed on your system. The Services tab of the Windows Task Manager.

You can also terminate processes from this tab. Effective use of the information provided with each process lets you find those that might be exhibiting memory leaks or consuming an inordinate amount of CPU time. By pulling down the View menu you can configure what columns should be shown in the display. The Processes tab provides details about all of the processes running on the system.

The Processes tab of the Windows Task Manager. The Applications tab gives you a quick look at the applications running on your system and allows you to easily terminate them, bring up an application's window, or create a new application. The tab that initially gets the focus is the tab that had the focus the last time the Task Manager was used. Notice that there are six tabs: Applications, Processes, Services, Performance, Networking, and Users. The Applications tab of the Windows 7 Task Manager. The following figure shows the Applications tab of the Windows 7 Task Manager: (See Figure 1.)įigure 1. Either way, Windows displays the Task Manager. There are a couple of ways to invoke the task manager (regardless of which Windows system you use): either right-click the task bar and choose "Start Task Manager" from the Context menu, or press Ctrl+Shift+Esc. It runs at a higher priority than normal applications, and it has sufficient privilege to view and control the system's running processes. The Task Manager is a useful tool for monitoring system activity, terminating misbehaving processes, and performing some high-level performance analysis.
