Hello. Today I'm going to be talking a
little bit about the Task Manager. The

Task Manager lets you see what programs are running, what processes are running, and it

lets you stop programs or processes that
might be frozen and/or might be

consuming exhorbitant amounts of
resources. There are a number of

different ways that you can start the
Task Manager. You can right-click on the

Task Bar at the bottom of your screen
and choose "Start Task Manager." You can

hit Control/Alt/Delete and start
the Task Manager that way. My favorite

way of starting it is holding the control
key down, holding the shift key down, and

then hitting escape. Control/shift/escape
starts the Task Manager right up. And you

can see right now that I've got five
different applications going. You can see

what they are. In my browser I have -- I'm
open to a mail client. You can see I have

four messages I need to attend to. My
Outlook calendar. I have a Word document

open that's listing the topics that I
wish to discuss in Screencast-o-Matic

Screencast-o-Matic is actually the
program that I'm making use of. So here

I'm in Internet Explorer. I visited the
Screencast-o-Matic website and I'm in

the process of recording this video. All
of these applications are running; that's

a good thing. If you get "not responding,"
it might mean that the program is just

doing some work and it will respond if
you give it a second or two, or it might

mean that basically it's frozen it's not
going to work. If you have an application

that you wish to stop abruptly -- I'm going
to start Firefox right now just so I

have something that I can cancel. I can
end really quickly, and I'm not doing

anything in -- If you click on one of the
applications and then choose "end task" it

will end that application's running
immediately. So if I decided to end my -- um,

stop the Word application from running, 
if I'd made changes to this discussing

screencast document those changes would not have been saved; it ends the process

abruptly, so you don't wish to use the
"end task" unless something seems to be

frozen, it's not responding, it's
consuming tons and tons of resources.

How do you know if a particular application
or process is consuming a lot of

resources.I can see right now I'm only
using three percent of the CPU down to 0%, 5%, 0%;

I'm not using very much at all. Physical
memory, also, I'm not used utilizing

very much: 20%. But suppose the
physical memory we're saying 80%

or 90%. Which of these,
if any of them, is the culprit? For that, I

could go to "Processes." Now you can take a look and see -- Wow at all those Chrome

processes! Do I actually have Chrome open
that many times on my computer?

No, I don't. I have opened up Chrome
process, but i have a few tabs open. Every

time you open up a new tab in Chrome
that starts a new process. I also have a

number of different extensions installed
in Chrome. Any time any of the extensions

are running, that's going to start up a
new process as well. So if you're

interested you can see these are the
different processes. These are the user

names of the owners of the process how
much CPU utilization it's using at the

moment, and at this point things are more
or less idle, how much memory is being

consumed and a description of what that
process is. If I'd like to see quickly

and easily which processes are using the
most memory, I can just click on "Memory"

to sort, so I can see that Chrome and
Internet Explorer seem to be the two

applications that are using the most
memory. Similarly, you could sort by any

of these different fields. There are
other tabs available that will give you

additional information; the contents of
those tabs, however, are beyond the scope

of this discussion. Thank you very much.