Check out this super-powerful, free alternative to Task Manager, from Microsoft. Windows isn’t just for hard-core geeks or just for novices. Being the most popular operating system on the planet, ...

Process Explorer is a total replacement for Task Manager—you can even configure it to appear in place of Task Manager in response to Ctrl+Alt+Del. It includes all of Task Manager's features, like the ...

Last week we asked you to share your favorite alternative to the functional but often underpowered Windows Task Manager. We tallied your nominations, and this weekend we rounded up the top five ...

Windows Task Manager keeps a tight check on applications, processes, and services running on your PC. If any of them is causing a slowdown, it lets you close or end that process. If the Task Manager ...

We have three topics this week. First, reader James Curcurato wrote in to ask about Process Explorer, one of the topics of last week’s column, “Polishing Windows.” Curcurato’s question was essentially ...

Process Explorer is a free tool from Microsoft available from TechNet. In addition to the basic Task Manager information, Process Explorer lets you hover over a host process and see all of the Windows ...

To kill a process, you have an option to Kill, Kill Politely, Kill At, Kill Politely At. The feature I like the most is the ability to schedule to kill an application which I think is very useful and ...

Windows only: System information utility Process Hacker is an open-source, portable task manager clone with loads of powerful features. While Process Hacker is meant to look and work a little more ...

If you're a longtime Windows user, you've probably encountered the Task Manager on more than one occasion. This handy Windows feature gives you an overview of what your computer is doing from ...