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We are about to share some effective tips and tricks for the Windows Task Manager. These are extremely important to know, because they help in everyday PC usage a lot. Task Manager is a advanced user tool, most new computer users don't even know where to find it and what it is for. There are a lot of things to mention, so split this post in to two pages.

There are many ways to access it one of the fastest is right-clicking your Task bar, selecting Task Manager - you can also use a key combination Ctrl+Shift+Esc in XP and Vista.

Most people use the Task Manager for one reason, that is to shutdown a program. The easiest way to do it is to load this tool, select the preferred program and click End Task. This usually brings up a little window with two options - End Task Now or Cancel. Of course, you will choose the first option, but most of the time it doesn't get you anywhere and you still have to wait or (a bad one) reset your crashed computer. But that is not advanced usage of this tool at all, you don't need to restart and lose most of the active stuff you had.

The only time you may really need to do a hard-reset (which is just holding the power button for a few seconds) is when you can't move your mouse. You might have been playing music and it freezes, starts playing the same half of a second - you may need to hard-reset your PC only at these or similar points. It is never recommended to hard-reset for what ever the reason, if you can navigate your mouse - you can enter Task Manager and maybe save your situation.

Most people use only the Applications Tab, they never really analyze the other tabs and what they are meant for. The most important tab. Processes Tab the scariest of these is not so hard to understand. Performance is in fact - very interesting to watch, it's like watching you computers heart, well to some of us... Networking is kind of the same, but only for your network adapter. Last tab is Users which doesn't do much accept Disconnect you from the machine, that works the same as Logoff.

Again most average windows users don't understand Processes Tab, because - yes you can accidentally crash your computer and lose your work. But if you know which one is the one not responding or one that you want to end, and you know how to start new processes - you can explore, test which processes take up memory and make your computer slow and loud. Good way of learning is by selecting the non-responding program and selecting go to procceses, only then select to end it. Doing so, might harm your computer, because a lot of aplications these days have more than one process and if you don't know - you are just messing things up.

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