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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There are millions of 3rd party apps. The focus of this site is to recommend free apps that work on the Windows OS. The most popular ones offer premium versions as well as coverage for different OS's and devices. Browser add-ons and extensions are also Apps.
It is recommended you don't overdo the usage of apps by having multiple installations that basically do the same thing. Read reviews and seek "top ten" pages on the web. By all means do your own trials remembering to remove those that you rejected (Refer Uninstallers). Be prepared to give the new kid on the block a go by reviewing those apps that are new for the current year.
Always pay attention when installing and watch that you don't click for additional crapware applications that you didn't ask for or probably don't need. Another trap is to either click for installation of the premium version or clicking for an upgrade from a barrage of nag pop-ups. Some freeware promise the world with many options which you may find greyed out and only available in the premium version.
Some apps make significant changes or additions to the operating system so good backup and recovery practices need to be considered.
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