Advanced Windows 11 tips: Task Manager

Nick Peers pulls back the curtain on these essential Windows 11 tips.

In this first tutorial in a new series showcasing how to get more from your Windows 11 setup, we’re starting with a detailed look at what’s going on under the hood of your machine. You may not currently care that, behind the scenes, your Windows installation is performing a complicated juggling routine involving a tangled web of applications, services, processes, threads, and handles, but we suspect that outlook will change the moment your system starts to slow down, become non-responsive, or prone to crashing. Knowledge is power, and there are two primary tools that can help you peer behind the scenes to determine what’s going on, identify areas of concern, and even in some cases, restore non-responsive applications to life without force-quitting them and losing hours of unsaved work. The…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2022

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