Q: My computer is running slow and I wonder if the 55 “processes” Windows Task Manager lists has anything to do with it. Surely I don’t need all of them. How can I determine what is needed and what is ...

Task Manager is one of the most useful diagnostic and troubleshooting tools in Windows. Press its keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+Esc, or use the option on the Quick Link menu, and you're greeted with ...

You can use WMIC command line to find & check running processes by name on your Windows 11/10 computer. We show you how. A simple WMIC command can help you get a list of all processes running on your ...

Q. When I go to my Windows XP “Task Manager” screen and look at the processes, there are usually 60 of them running. What really NEEDS to be running? How do I know what ones I should end process, and ...

With UNIX having many tasks running simultaneously, through the years developers have incorporated several command-line tools that allow for live process management ...

Running processes in the background can be convenient when you want to use your terminal window for something else while you wait for the first task to complete. Running commands in the Linux terminal ...

More frequently than one might assume, application processes under Mac OS X stick around longer than they're welcome. Even though you've ostensibly quit an application (it no longer appears in the ...

I have 8 GB of RAM and on a clean boot with almost nothing running. I have 50% of my memory used up sometimes more. I thought it was a dead RAM stick so I tried to use one RAM stick at a time and they ...