Questions tagged [task-manager]
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Virtual Machine memory usage not appearing in TaskManager
There's something about Windows memory management and it's relationship to TaskManager that I don't understand and I'm hoping someone can enlighten me.
If I'm running a virtual machine (doesn't ...
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Determine process uptime
Is there a way to determine the 'uptime' of a process in Windows. Disappointed to find that it is not one of the attributes available when using the Task Manager.
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Windows 7 or Server 2008 Show running time for a Process
Is there any simple way to show how long a specific PID instance has been active?
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What is a Process Handle?
What is a process handle and what can we know about a running process through the "handle count" property in a task explorer?
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Finegrained performance reporting on svchost.exe
This is something that's always bothered me, so I'll ask the Server Fault community.
I love Process Explorer for keeping track of more than just the high-level tasks you get in the Task Manager. But ...
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Weird memory usage in Windows Server 2008 R2
I hope someone can help. We've got a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine with 16GB of RAM that keeps getting all its available memory eaten by something. Nothing in Task Manager or Resource Monitor reveals ...
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How to trigger a task at any change on a folder with Windows Server Task Scheduler?
Is it possible to start a script every time a folder tree is modified.
E.g.:
root
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file1
dir2
file1
file2
root would be listened and if, for example, file2 is modified or a new ...
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How do I determine what taskhost.exe is doing?
Once or twice a week taskhost.exe slows my computer to a halt! It takes up 25% of my CPU power (ie. 1 processor). I can't kill it an have no idea what it is doing. I imagine that its some kind of ...
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What is the best way to identify unknown processes on windows?
How do you typically identify processes in windows' task manager when trouble shooting a problematic system?
It's easy enough to get a list of tasks via the task manager but how do you determine ...
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RAM is being under reported in Windows Task Manager?
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit SP1 machine with 16GB of RAM installed. If I open the task manager, it tell me that nearly all of the memory is full -- only it's not.
The Total is correct, but ...
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In Windows Task Manager, in the Processes tab, what does I/O Other mean?
In Windows Server 2003, I'm seeing a process in Task Manager with a high value in the I/O Other column. I'm trying to determine if it's in some kind of error state, but I don't know what I/O Other ...
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The GPU usage provided by nvidia-smi command is very different from GPU metrics from guest OS
I'm working on a project that can monitor virtual machines' vgpu usage.
The hypervisor is vCenter, we have nvidia A16 cards installed on vCenter hosts, and assigned a16 vGPU to a couple of windows VMs ...
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Should you replace your task manager with process explorer? [closed]
We all know & love process explorer. The question is should it be used as the main task manager and replace Windows task manager (launched on CTRL-SHIFT-ESCAPE).
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Does process priority in task manager affect network traffic?
I'm running a database server that's under moderately heavy load. I just kicked off xcopy on that box to copy a database backup to a remote server.
I see that xcopy is using almost all my available ...
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Task manager requiring elevation for regular users in Windows 10
Run into a little bit of a snag with Windows 10, and it's a fairly well known one - the problem is that I'm struggling to find a Windows 10 compatible fix that actually works!
It's the old "regular ...
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What is "Print driver host for applications" and why does it slow down my Excel macros?
I tested this on multiple Windows 10 computers running the latest version of Excel (365 subscription) with both Bluebeam PDF and Microsoft XPS Document writer set as the default printer and get the ...
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How do I know which process is what program?
Task manager shows a list of processes running. How do I find out, what process is what program? Sure the list shows the name of the exe-file, but I want to know the name of the program. Also I would ...
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Is it possible to run a task on the last day of the month using taskmgr?
I noticed you can only set the day of the month as a positive number 1..31 in the scheduled task GUI on Windows (Windows server 2003).
Is it possible to run a task only on the last day of the month? (...
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Undo replace task manager on R2
I used the option in System Internals process explorer to replace task manager. Now task manager does not load nor does process explorer, but an error for taskmgr gives the path of taskmgr.exe and ...
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Task Manager Memory Discrepancy
On our Windows 2008 R2 64 bit servers there seems to be a discrepancy between the number shown in Task Manager on the Performance tab in the Memory Graph and the sum of the Memory (Private Working Set)...
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Hyper-V VM CPU usage monitoring
I'm migrating a number of VM's from one host to another (Win 2012R2 to Win 2016) and am noticing much higher CPU usage on the new host (quite a lot higher).
I was seeing this on Task Explorer so ...
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Task Manager Processor %
Related to this question: How can a Perfmon "% Processor Time" counter be over 100%?
I was manually observing processes in Task Manager when a user reported a problem and the Oracle process ...
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Execute a Windows task triggered by registry changes
I'm looking for a possibility to execute a script in case a particular registry key is going to be created or modified. In the Windows Taks Scheduler there is a way to execute scripts triggered by ...
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How to free used memory in Windows Server 2008 R2?
The Task Manager and the Resource Monitor say that the memory is 95% used, but the sum of the memory used by the listed processes don't sum up to 20%. Where this 75% of usage is coming from? How to ...
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In Windows 2012 Task Manager CPU Performance chart, what do the 2 data series represent?
I've searched everywhere for this. What do the 2 different traces on this picture mean? Is one the kernel CPU cycles?
One series is in light blue and the other in dark blue
This is an Azure Virtual ...
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Too many csrss.exe, LogonUI.exe, svchost.exe and winlogon.exe in task manager
On a windows server 2008 enterprise edition, nothing has changed but recently there are many csrss.exe, LogonUI.exe, svchost.exe and winlogon.exe processes in task manager.
Does it mean some remote ...
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Bytes Per 'Interval' in Windows XP Task Manager
In Windows XP, one of the columns for the network tab in task manager that I can add is Bytes Per Interval. So what amount of time in seconds is a 'Microsoft Interval', 1.2?
I see there is 'Update ...
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Nagios reports Scheduled Task returns no exit code dtexec
We have SSIS tasks (dtexec) that are executed by Windows Task Manager and monitored by Nagios. Regularly, however, Nagios reports warnings because the exit code is empty (where it should be 0). This ...
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Process listed as 8 character short name in Task Manager
I have a couple of servers with a process that regularly gets stuck. We kill this process with a vbs script that runs the taskkill command (among a couple other things). The issue is that the ...
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High "System" process cpu usage on windows server 2008 r2
Our setup is VMWare Esxi system, running on a dual quad core server with 32gb of RAM. It has 4 VM's running on it, and one of them, our file server, ie experiencing high cpu usage for the 'system' ...
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Aspnet_wp is showing up with a strange name in Task Manager
Instead of "aspnet_wp," AS61FF~1.EXE is displayed, having User Name ASPNET. I took a look in Process Explorer, and indeed, that strangely named process is aspnet_wp. Why would it be displayed this way ...
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Why Maximum Frequency is showing high? in Task Manager
I have created my secondary Domain Controller in Window server 2008 Standard R2.I have only install a Domain Controller role, that's it.
than ,why the maximum frequency is showing high? i.e around 89%...
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Possible reasons for high CPU load of taskmgr.exe process on VM?
On a VMware virtual machine which has severe performance problems I can see a constant average of 20+ percent CPU load for the TASKMGR.EXE (task manager) process. The apps running on this server have ...
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taskmanager alternatives
Other than Process Explorer and Process Hacker, what good task manager replacements exist?
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Shut down operating system by killing task
I came across quite an odd error recently and was wondering if anyone has any insight into it. I can't find any reference to such a scenario on Google so here goes...
The rough sequence of events is ...
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How to get Remote Processes on Windows 2003 with cpu percentage
I have a production server with it's cpu's running excessively high. Except in critical circumstances nobody is allowed to logon to servers during non maintenance times. I am looking for an ...
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How can I query or view the usage and ownerships of physical memory?
On Windows 7 and Windows 2008 SP2, how can I view who or what is using up my memory? In the task manager I can see the memory usage of user processes of me and other users, but there's always a gap ...
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How to log CPU usage by processes
On one of our servers I used Perfmon to log CPU usage. It showed me several
spikeat 100% but don't know what process(s) caused that. So, how can I log
CPU usage for process which used more than 40%?
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Can I use Gulp to modify my .htaccess file with different configurations for Dev & Production?
I have two CentOS boxes running Apache. One is my dev environment and the other is my production environment. I am looking at using Gulp in a process of pushing from my dev server to my production ...
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Should XenApp users have access to task manager?
I have a XenApp 6.5 farm of around 30 servers running on Server 2008 delivering a published desktop.
A fair percentage of our help desk calls are around hung sessions. It's not an excessive amount ...
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Virtual memory and CPU usage catch 20/20?
I am looking at this system below with ensuring we have enough memory to carry out day to day tasks, we have been hitting a bottleneck recently because there was only a 2GB page file, I've changed ...
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How do I save a dump file of a running process to a specific disk location?
In the Windows 7 task manager, I can create a dump file of a running process by right-clicking the process entry and selecting "Create Dump File". By default, this saves the file to the logged-on ...
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How to enable disk performance display in Windows 2019 task manager?
On Windows server the disk performance is not displayed by default in Task Manager.
For Windows 2012R2 (and some other versions) it can be enabled by the command diskperf -y (and restarting Task ...
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How is Task Manager showing a DLL as running process?
I've been working with windows for almost 20 years, but I have never seen something like this. On a Windows 10 Machine, there is a .dll listed as separate process in task manager. It has Network ...
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Difference between Task Manager's Processes and Details tabs
In Windows' Task Manager we have 2 tabs that show process CPU usage: Processes and Details. Trying to find a hotspot in my developed software, I noticed that CPU usage differs there in a huge manner - ...
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RamMap shows millions of processes that Task manager doesn't
I have a server 2008 box with 32GB RAM on and i have been investigating why it runs out of memory every 150 ish days. Task manager shows that we are running at 99% memory usage but all the processes ...
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Where'd my Solaris task bar go?
I've got a user here that has a curious problem. Upon login, he gets a "Unable to open panel because the panel is already open" error message. His session does not display a task bar, but otherwise ...
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Allow users to view all processes
I want to allow accounts with only user permissions on a Windows Server 2003 machine to be able to view all processes. I simply want them to be able to open task manager and be able to check the box ...
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"ps -aux" or "top" equivalent for Windows Server
I need to check which processes are running on a Windows Server instance, I'm looking for something similar to top or ps -aux, but I'm only finding references to use Task Manager with GUI.
What is the ...
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Alternate a task Windows Task Scheduler
I'm looking for a good way to alternate a task within the Windows Task Scheduler.
One Saturday, run Task A. Then the next Saturday, run Task B. Then repeat.
Any suggestions on how to accomplish that ...
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