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 ...

Dive past Task Manager to see per-process disk writes, open handles, and the remote IPs a service is contacting.

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 ...

Task Manager shows what’s busy; this free tool helps me figure out what’s actually causing the mess.

Windows Task Manager is a powerful system-monitoring tool that comes built-in with Microsoft Windows operating systems. It provides real-time information about the various processes, applications, and ...

My trail of half-ticked task manager lists runs long and wide. From Google Tasks to Wunderlist and Any.do to Remember The Milk (remember that?), I’ve dabbled in practically every to-do app. Yes, even ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Task Manager is fine for checking which app is eating your CPU or how much RAM Chrome has claimed for itself. But it stops at surface-level numbers, shows ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Most of us only use Task Manager to close unresponsive apps, but it can do much more. It can show which processes are using the most resources, help you ...

Here’s how you can quickly open the Task Manager on your Microsoft Surface Pro device. 1. Press the Windows key and Power button at the same time. 2. A screen will appear and you can Lock, Sign Out, ...