Windows 8 Task Manager Detailed

Windows System Task Manager, everyone should be familiar. It is estimated that more friends are stuck when they execute the program and have to start the task manager by Ctrl+Alt+Delete to end the program. In addition, the task manager can view the current system resource usage, such as CPU and memory. Wait for resources to occupy. In the Windows 8 system, the task manager has also changed a lot. Compared with Win7, it is more user-friendly and intelligent, and has a very big change in interface operation and function setting. In this article, let's take a look at the power of Win8 Task Manager.

How to open the task manager?

Self-identification is the drift of Windows masters :). After all, there are still a lot of newcomers, especially the newcomers who have just experienced the Windows 8 system. It is estimated that there are still many operations that cannot find the North.

1, is also the normal operation path: on the desktop taskbar, right click, select “ task manager & rdquo;;

2, shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + Delete, press The next set of shortcut keys, including lock, switch user and logout, etc., of course, also includes the task manager;

3, shortcut key: Ctrl+Shift+Esc, can directly start the task manager;

4, run: Win+R open the run box, enter taskmggr and determine;

5, in the search for the super button, enter Chinese <; task manager & rdquo; or program name & ldquo;taskmgr” Bring up the task manager;

6. Shortcut: Select the task manager from the menu that pops up in Win + X.

Compatible with Windows 7 System Task Manager
Window 7 System Task Manager

Compared to previous Windows 98, Windows XP, to Win7 system, task manager option parameters Already a lot, in addition to the basic process, you can also view all processes, and joined the resource monitor. But this information is not something that ordinary white users can understand. The most used is just the end of the task, but it is also limited to identifiable, such as the Chinese name, or easy to identify such as QQ.

In the process, so many English names and service processes are mixed together. It is not easy to know the properties of each process. Fortunately, Win7's task manager is also very smart and powerful, and the monitoring of resources, etc., are also very intuitive.

Windows 8 Task Manager Interface
Windows 8 Task Manager - Brief Information Interface Computer Knowledge
Windows 8 Task Manager - Details

In the above picture we see Win8 The system's resource manager is very succinct, and is divided into two tabs, "Simplified Information" and "Details", which seem to be beautiful in appearance.

In the Lite Task Manager, there are no complicated function tags. Only the currently running programs can use the right mouse button to perform some basic functions such as ending tasks, opening file locations, and online search. But for most users, if the program is stuck and the system is not responding, the end of the task can be achieved in the simplified version. Next, we mainly talk about the details panel of Win8 Task Manager.

At the bottom left of Task Manager Starter Edition we expand “Details” switch to a more powerful full version. There will be more powerful task managers here: processes, performance, users, services, and some new feature panels.

Windows 8 Task Manager Features

Process: Program Grouping and New Naming Methods

Win8 Task Manager groups running programs, such as applications , background processes, Windows processes, then we are relatively easy to quickly determine the properties of the program.
Windows 8 Task Manager groups programs.

In addition, in this task manager, almost all running program names are easy to identify, no longer like a lot of English basics. If you don't understand it, you can't immediately judge whether it can end. And the detailed service process, we click on the small triangle to the left of the name to expand, you can view all the current processes.

Of course, some processes may still not understand and do not know what it means. On the name of the process you want to know, in the menu that pops up with the right mouse button, click “Online Search”, it will automatically open the default browser to search for the current name, to help you determine whether a background process is useful.
Online Search - Right click on the name

User-friendly resource usage alert interface

In the "process", except for the name change, the CPU, memory, The contents of several labels on the disk and network are also identified by color blocks. The meaning here is that the resource occupancy ratio is visually reflected by the depth of the color, which reduces the monotony of the digital stack and looks very comfortable and clear.
The deeper the color, the greater the resource usage.

In a nutshell, a lighter color indicates less resource usage, and a darker color, the resource is more occupied, that is, when When a program is abnormal and causes some overload in the system, the task manager will alert the user through the red system (the color system increases with the degree of overload). When the overload is particularly serious, the reminder color will instantly turn into a large red color, enabling the user to quickly find the problem. In the process, we can also sort the load process by means of the title bar to find other hazards faster. The graphical representation of this detail interface can be seen at a glance, which can be said to be a major improvement in humanity.

Support for Metro Applications

In addition to traditional desktop applications, the new Task Manager also supports Metro applications, as shown below.
Windows 8 Task Manager

That is, if we open a lot of "start" procedures on the screen, you can also manually end the process on the task manager. But in fact, the program in the interface of Windows 8 system does not work like a desktop program. When you open a lot of desktop programs, these programs will always occupy the process resources. But for Metro's programs, when you open another Metro app, the previous ones have been reduced, leaving enough resources for the current application being used.

Performance: Resource usage view is very detailed

Click on the "Performance" tab, where you can view the resources of the CPU, memory, hard disk and network of the machine, and The way of the graph shows the current status in real time.
Performance

This performance tag is also available in Windows 7 system, but it looks more beautiful in Win8, and the parameters are very detailed. Let's take a look at the performance in the Windows 7 System Task Manager.
Performance in Windows 7 Task Manager

Application History

This is also a new option. You can see the Metro application under the "Application History" tab. Resource usage summary records, such as CPU usage time, traffic consumption, and traffic consumed by tile updates, can also be deleted from the usage data of these applications. The consumption of large amounts also has obvious color display.
Application History

Startup: Boot File Settings
Startup

“Startup” is also a new option for Win8 Task Manager Enable or disable programs that are started at boot time. Simply put, when we boot, the system will load a lot of startup items, such as anti-virus software, Office service items, network disk synchronization, etc. These random startup programs, although convenient for our operation, will affect the system startup speed.

Seeing this, I believe some friends have already thought of it. Isn't this the function in System Configuration? Enter the msconfig command in "Run" in “Start” Can you set it? Yes, but in Windows 8, this feature has been transferred to the task manager.
The startup in the system configuration no longer exists!

The menu popped up by the right mouse button can be set to disable/enable. If you don't know some processes, you can also “search online”.

Conclusion:

Windows 8 Task Manager has added a lot of features, and the interface design is also very beautiful, and the management of various processes is also very easy, especially for Xiaobai, Many processes that do not understand, you only need to use the "online search" to find relevant knowledge. And the integration of "start" is also more convenient for the setting of the add-on, compared to the previous system configuration, the operation is much simpler. The biggest performance of Win8 task manager humanization is the color block depth identification and naming method of resources, I believe that some novices can also operate relatively simple.

In addition, the “Users, Details, and Services” tabs in the Windows 8 System Manager, because most users use less, will not go into details here, and interested friends can experience it themselves.