Discover why Process Explorer beats Windows Task Manager as a great alternative for task management, providing deeper insights and faster PC fixes.

A freshly installed system starts up quickly and responds swiftly. A few updates and new software installations later, however, Windows seems to become slower and slower. There are several ways to ...

If you're willing to use a third-party program, however, you can make the taskbar look and act like almost anything you want.

Microsoft has resolved a known issue preventing users from quitting the Windows 11 Task Manager after installing the optional Windows 11 KB5067036 update. Although having a few Task Manager processes ...

Task Manager is one of the essential tools of Windows, an easy, always-available look at what software is running (or not). But most users don’t have it open constantly and even those who do probably ...

The latest Windows 11 Task Manager icon takes Microsoft's modern amorphous blob aesthetic to its (il)logical limit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Microsoft has delivered some blows to Task Manager in recent times. As noted last week by PC Gamer's Andy Edser, the Windows team recently stamped out a bug that granted Task Manager immortality. The ...

A former Microsoft developer thinks Windows sucks and explains why. Windows has become more of a marketing tool to sell Microsoft services. A Microsoft exec touts Windows as an agentic OS, and the ...

Microsoft is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 to address growing performance and security concerns by leveraging the capabilities of system-on-a-chip and CPU. Free unofficial ...