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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System Apps Page
System apps are those that help describe, change or optimise the parameters of the Windows operating system and installed apps.
There are many inbuilt app tools that can be used to achieve this from simple on/off settings to complex apps such as the task scheduler, power shell etc. These are dealt with is separate pages and articles.
Focus for these linked pages is to review a small selection of free third party apps. The following categories will be reviewed. NB: Some apps have functionality that is applicable in more than one category.
Cleaners
Keeping your hardware clean of unused apps and temporary files is important to the efficiency of your operating system,
Information
System Information is useful in assessing its performance or assisting in problem solving
Tweakers
System tools allow for adjustment to the syatem parameters and are not for the lighthearted. One slip and its back to the recovery which wipes the current system - we all have a current image don't we?
Uninstallers
Unwanted apps need to be totally and safely removed. These include bloat wear and those apps that sneak in when you install a new app,
Drivers
Making sure your devices communicate effectively with the system is critical for optimum performance