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Using the Task Manager for performance assessments

Using the Task Manager for performance assessments - Windows Tutorial

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Using the Task Manager for performance assessments

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- [Instructor] Windows 11 contains several different tools that you can use to assess the system performance. And the reason why there are such a variety of tools is because some of these tools are really simple and are suitable for just lightweight performance monitoring, and others are complex. They're the sort of thing that you might use when you're doing a really deep dive trying to find out the root cause of a performance problem. So let's take a look at the simplest of performance tools. That is the Task Manager. So what I'm going to do is right-click on the Start button. From there, I'm going to click on Run, and I'm going to type "task mgr" and press Enter. And this opens up the Task Manager. So initially, what you'll see is a list of all of the processes that are running on the machine. And this can certainly be useful information for troubleshooting performance problems, because you can see the resources…

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