Have you ever changed the priority of a process in the Task Manager? Do you have to do it often? Do you want your database server or media player to know the priority it should work with? If so, you have two choices: do it manually every time or automate/manage the process. If you prefer the latter then a tool you should check out is Prio Process Priority...

Keeping with the recent theme of Windows Task Manager, an idea I got from an article I read a while back (sorry, I can’t find the article), suggested setting Windows Task Manager as an item in your start up folder as a way to easily keep tabs on system resources. I started doing this about a month ago and it seems to be working really well for me (note:...

Windows Task Manager, as you probably know, allows you to view all the active applications and processes currently running on your computer. This is a very handy tool when troubleshooting or just getting an overall view of your computer. One tool I have found better than Task Manager is Process Explorer. This free tool allows you a much more detailed view of...

As you probably know, Task Manager is what you use in Windows to view (and kill) currently active processes. There are several ways you can easily open Task Manager so I thought I would list four easy ones here:Ctrl + Alt + Del > Click Task Manager. This is the most commonly used method. Right click on the Task Bar and select “Task Manager” from...