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Contact | Feedback | Tell a Friend | Join Mailing List ProcessLibrary.com - Free Process Directory, resources and tools if you immediately wants to know the exact nature and purpose of any process running on your PC THE TASK MANAGERA Task Manager might sound like a slave driver in a suit, but actually it is a very useful addition to Windows XP. In fact more like your slave.So how to summon this engaging genie? You could try rubbing a magic lamp, but if you are clean out of bric-a-brac, try Shift + Ctrl + Esc or Ctrl+Alt+Del. If you are not a fingers person right-click on an empty area of the Task Bar and select "Task Manager", with or without a loud cry of, "open sesame!" Alternatively, flick your wand, err sorry, point your cursor to an empty area of the Task Bar, right-click and choose "Task Manager". If you are a very boring person just use Start - Run and type "taskman" and run. OK, so the wonderful magic window is now open to your wondering, round-eyed gaze. Your sweaty, little fingers are itching to try something, but you don't want to go into orbit. "Just a little try," you plead, "something harmless, but be gentle with me." No problem, mate, here's a nifty little trick. Listed in the Task Manager are all the currently open applications. Supposing you want to use a word-processing application to compare notes and shift some from one to the other. Normally you open two instances of the application and get annoyed when you shift focus from one to the other as they overlap. Simply highlight both in your ever-obliging Task Manager and select "tile horizontal" or "tile vertical", and they will sit happily together like two little doves on a branch. Coo! By the way, if you have two programs sitting side by side and you want to call a third that is hidden or minimized to the Task Bar (yes, the thingy at the bottom) use Alt+Tab. But, of course, you knew that. But did you know that minimizing to the Task Bar frees up a lot of RAM? Ah-ha! Thought not. Now, what more can we do with dear old TM? There are a great many things you can do with processes but to explain them would hurt my head. I prefer to use Wintasks 5 Pro a great little utility from Uniblue that makes it all much easier. If your PC is a maggot-infested, writhing pit of worms and viruses they show up as processes, but with this ally you can leap upon them yelling KILL! KILL! KILL! But, gentle reader, do take a moment to consider what Mrs So-and-So next door, with her tumbler pressed against the wall, might be thinking.
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