Windows 8–Day 2

The Windows task Manager in Windows 8 is completely revamped. I like the new look of the task manager. It is very intuitive and a single place to go to to debug all the issues. The task manager itself consists of 7 main areas:

• Processes
• Performance
• App History
• Startup
• Users
• Details
• Services

The Processes tab nicely explains what applications and background processes are running. It also gives a graphical view of the current CPU, Memory, Disk & Network usage of each of the process. Right clicking each process gives you the ability to end the process, create dump file and look at the properties:

The Performance tab gives you more details on the CPU, Memory, Disk and Networking usage. You can also launch resource monitor from the link at the bottom of this screen.

The App History tab is completely new and is for tracking the performance of the Metro Styled applications.

The startup tab give the information about the applications which are started during system startup. You can disable the unneeded ones by right clicking the application.

The Users tab gives you an idea about the users logged into the system and also the resources used by each of the users.

The details table gives you information about the applications which are running.

The Services tab gives you an idea about the currently installed services on the system.