Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Stop background processes slowing you down

Stop background processes slowing you down

Sometimes the biggest drains on your system resources are things you don’t even realise are running. Robert Irvine explains how to detect and disable the hidden hogs

Identify and kill the worst memory hogs


The simplest way to find out what’s happening in the background on your PC is through the Windows Task Manager. To launch this built-in tool, either right-click the taskbar and select Start Task Manager or press Ctrl+Shift+Esc on your keyboard. Click the Processes tab for an overview of everything that’s running on your system, then click the Memory column to sort entries according to the amount of memory they’re using. To stop a specific resource hog, click its name in the list (the Description column tells you which program is responsible, so you don’t close anything important), then click the End Process button.
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