For example, there is no Start Button.
But comparatively there are huge improvements, when compared to the immediate predecessors.
The first method is the quickest of getting to the task manager.
That will directly pop-up the window.
The available options are listed on the top.
Under Name there are several processes likeApps, Background processes, Windows processesetc.
This gives an outline view of the usage of your setup resources.
From this list, you’re free to find out whichApporApplicationconsumes most of the resources.
For example Google Chrome in my case is the highest resource program, out of the active apps.
It also consumes roughly 120MB of RAM.
All these details can be got from this tab.
Coming to the Background processes, its Google Chrome again.
Also Kaspersky Anti Virus and Pokki are taking much of the available resources.
But the surprising thing is about the Windows processes.
This is because, though there are many windows processes, only a few consume a lot of resource.
The Desktop Windows Manager is on the top of the charts when it comes to resource utilization.
System Interrupts are next on the list.
First of all, your CPU details are mentioned at the top.
So this pane can also be used to get details of your Processor.
The graph displays the CPU usage over a period of 60 secs.
All these details can be got if you smack the CPU tab on the left hand side.
In the same way, if you click Memory, several other details will be displayed.
you’ve got the option to also realize the amount of memory for tile updates here.
Several applications are listed here.
Their status is also listed as Enabled or Disabled.
The answer lies in the Startup Impact option.
Here there are different values like High, Medium, None.
So naturally, all the applications which are having high impact on the start-up, can be disabled.
So this way, you canquicken the start-up of Windows 8 computer.
Users
This will be useful, if your Windows 8.1 terminal is a server computer.
So there will be many users connected to it.
Details
In this several processes are listed here.
This comes under the SYSTEM user and occupies 50MB of memory.
Like this several other details for different processes like chrome.exe, AcroRd32.exe,EXCEL.exe are a few examples.
In this tab, you’re free to kill any task exclusively.
Services
This tab lists all the services working on your gear.
The same can be got by typing services.msc in the Search button.
This option will be helpful to see whether a particular service is running or stopped.
you could also right-click any service and stop, restart the service if its already running.
