Summary task manager

The task manager is activated by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and selecting Task manager or by pressing Ctrl-Shift-Esc. It contains three tabs :

Applications tab

This tab shows the applications that are currently running. Applications can be closed via ‘End Task’ and new ones can be started by using the 'News tasks' button. The ‘Switch to’ button gives the ability to move to a specific application. If you right-click an application, you can switch to it, bring it in front, end it or display the related process.

Process tab

This tab shows all processes running on the system and their Process Id’s (PID), CPU usage, CPU time and memory usage. More columns can be add via View – Select columns. A process can be stop by using the ‘End Process' button. If you want to stop a process and all related process, use ‘End Process Tree’. Set affinity is used to select a specific processor to execute a process in multi-processor system. When you right-click a process, you can end it or set the priority. There are four kinds of priority levels which are based on 32 priorities. (0 to 31) Most applications and less-critical operating system program run in the lower priorities (0-15), Real time applications and parts of the operating system use the higher priority areas (16-31). The priority levels are broken up into four base levels. These levels are used by the applications, the priority levels in between are used by the thread priority levels.

Applications can start in a normal priority level by using Start /realtime or /high or /normal or /slow.

Performance tab

This tab shows all kind of performance indicators about memory and processor usage.

Last update : 16 December 2000