Here’s a few screenshots of the new Tabs starting with Performance Tab.Īpp History Tab – This will be really cool for Windows 8 Server. Starting with the Processes Tab, Windows 8 provides in-depth details around each application running including status (suspended), percentage of CPU being used, Memory, Disk and Network. I know it’s probably not normal to get excited about something like the Task Manager, but honestly, the new Windows 8 Task Manager is very nice. To view the new Task Manager in all its glory, Click the More details button. If you’re not sure what a process that’s running is, you can search online for it, which more convenient that before. If you want to close the app, right-click to highlight is and select End Task. Similar to other tablets like the iPad, Windows 8 suspends inactive applications in order to conserve on Memory and CPU.

As you can see, the default Task Manager has been greatly simplified– only listing the apps running and their status. It will switch over to the desktop in order to open Task Manager. from the desktop right-click the taskbar and then select Task Manager.

Or, just like previous versions of Windows. Note that this video was created during the Developer Preview of Windows 8, but the features of the Task Manager have remained the sameįirst from the Windows 8 Metro UI, Launch the Search field using the Windows 8 Shortcut Key Windows Key + W or just start typing task manager from the Start screen. If you want to print this article so you can read it later, feel free to skip the video and scroll down where I cover the full review including screenshots. After installing Windows 8, I managed to discover three or four different ways to pull up the new Task Manager as well as the old legacy on from Windows 7.

Being that I’m always installing new software and tweaking things, I frequently need to monitor the performance of my system and kill apps which aren’t behaving. Task Manager is usually the first thing I start looking for after installing a new OS.

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