The Task Manager has been around for a long time.
The app gives you access to many functions that can help with your efforts to monitor, control and optimise your operating system. It can also be used to diagnose system problems by showing abnormal use of resources. High usage of CPU, Memory, network or disk usage can indicate problems whose cause needs to be found and reduced. If you are tweaking your system settings you will want to see how effective they are by reviewing the relevant categories.
The Task Manager has been around for a long time.
The app gives you access to many functions that can help with your efforts to monitor, control and optimise your operating system. It can also be used to diagnose system problems by showing abnormal use of resources. High usage of CPU, Memory, network or disk usage can indicate problems whose cause needs to be found and reduced. If you are tweaking your system settings you will want to see how effective they are by reviewing the relevant categories.
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Windows 10 Alarms & Clock
The Alarm & Clock utility app comes packaged with Windows 10. It provides four categories to help with your time management :-
Alarms
Clock
Timer
Stopwatch
This page gives you an oversight into the functionality of this app
Accessing the App
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If you have Cortana active: Hey Cortana Launch Alarms & Clocks
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Use the search box and type in Alarms and Clocks
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Go to the All Apps Listing
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Could also be pinned to the Start Menu or Taskbar
Setting Alarms
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Multiple alarms can be set in this section. As it warns your device must be on to show notifications;
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Periodic alarms can be set or just one offs.
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Alarms no longer required can be deleted
Adding an Alarm - One Off
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There are 10 chimes to choose from
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Once the alarm is triggered a notification will appear on your screen and the chosen alarm will sound
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You can either click on the snooze option or dismiss. The dismiss does not delete the item it switches it off. To delete or edit the item see below. If you leave the item off it can be reactivated any time in the future.
Adding an Alarm - Repeating
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The above shows a limit of weekly reminders only. Other apps such as Outlook or Microsoft To Do can provide more sophisticated schedules with longer timelines,
Clocks
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Clocks can be set for anywhere in the world to show the difference compared to local time.
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There are two views :
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Full Screed - This shows tiles with the info. It can become quite messy if you need to compare a lot of locations
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Minimised or reduced screen - show a list and is much neater
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Add
Select Clocks
Convert
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To add a location press the + symbol and an input box opens. If you type in a location that is not covered you will be prompted to enter the nearest large city.
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To delete an entry hit the Select clocks button at the bottom. The display will changeto sohw tick boxes and a trash can button for delete.
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The convert button shows a scale to allow you to add or subtract from the current local time to see what time it will be in the location of interest.
The Delete selected clocks button only becomes active when a clock has been selected
Timer
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A timer alarm can be useful for many things such as cooking, setting time for adhesives, chmical mixing time, paint drying times etc.
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This section allows for setting of multiple timers which can be pined to the start or expanded to a full screen display.
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It is limited to 24 hrs (minus 1 second) and the alarm chime is not settable
Adding a timer
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When adding a timer you must press the start button to activate. Then you need to pause and reset it in order to save it.
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To remove a timer use the Select timers button and tick the one you want to remove then press the trash can button
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There is also an expand button to show a timer in the default size or full screen size - see below
Expanded View
Stopwatch
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Once you hit the start button a flag will appear to record Laps/Splits
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Once the watch has been stopped the results can be shared
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The Expand/Restore button operates the same as for timers
