A new Windows 11 bug causes Task Manager to keep duplicating. Each time you close and reopen the tool, another instance launches. To avoid this, you'll have to close Task Manager from Task Manager ...

Modern Setup Host is an executable file (.exe file) found in the $Windows.~BT folder inside your system drive. This program runs in the background with the user’s ...

One reason to use the Task Manager in Windows is to see if any of the apps running on your computer are misbehaving or using a disproportionate amount of resources. But what do you do when the ...

Your business computer hosts critical system files that you may never see while browsing files such as spreadsheets, expense reports and others in Windows Explorer. One system file, rundll32.exe, runs ...

The Windows Task Manager is one of the most iconic tools of the operating system. Whether you’re looking for information on system processes, checking on how your CPU or RAM is doing, or trying to ...

Windows 11 is far from perfect, but it does make Task Manager significantly better. It's modern, has a search bar, and easy-to-understand graphs. But what are some of the lesser-known features of the ...

If the Windows Event Log process is taking a high CPU, disk, memory, or power usage on your computer, here are the methods to fix the issue: End the Windows Event Log task from Task Manager. Stop the ...

Since the advent of Windows in the early '90s, the saving grace of many panicked users has been the combination of the CTRL, ALT, and DEL keys. This holdover keyboard code from IBM's heyday in the ...

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More malware is using Windows Task Scheduler to do its dirty work. Here's how to mitigate this surprising attack vector Malware authors have been using the Windows Task Scheduler (or AT.exe jobs) to ...

David Plummer, the former Microsoft developer who wrote Windows Task Manager in the 1990s, has revealed the application's inner workings and hidden tricks. Windows Task Manager (TaskMgr) first shipped ...

Windows 10 brings a lot of great features to the PC, but one that power users are greeting with an exasperated “finally” is virtual desktops. This longstanding productivity powerhouse has long been ...