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    Hello. Today I'm going to be talking a
    little bit about the Task Manager. The
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    Task Manager lets you see what programs are running, what processes are running, and it
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    lets you stop programs or processes that
    might be frozen and/or might be
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    consuming exhorbitant amounts of
    resources. There are a number of
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    different ways that you can start the
    Task Manager. You can right-click on the
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    Task Bar at the bottom of your screen
    and choose "Start Task Manager." You can
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    hit Control/Alt/Delete and start
    the Task Manager that way. My favorite
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    way of starting it is holding the control
    key down, holding the shift key down, and
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    then hitting escape. Control/shift/escape
    starts the Task Manager right up. And you
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    can see right now that I've got five
    different applications going. You can see
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    what they are. In my browser I have -- I'm
    open to a mail client. You can see I have
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    four messages I need to attend to. My
    Outlook calendar. I have a Word document
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    open that's listing the topics that I
    wish to discuss in Screencast-o-Matic
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    Screencast-o-Matic is actually the
    program that I'm making use of. So here
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    I'm in Internet Explorer. I visited the
    Screencast-o-Matic website and I'm in
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    the process of recording this video. All
    of these applications are running; that's
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    a good thing. If you get "not responding,"
    it might mean that the program is just
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    doing some work and it will respond if
    you give it a second or two, or it might
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    mean that basically it's frozen it's not
    going to work. If you have an application
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    that you wish to stop abruptly -- I'm going
    to start Firefox right now just so I
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    have something that I can cancel. I can
    end really quickly, and I'm not doing
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    anything in -- If you click on one of the
    applications and then choose "end task" it
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    will end that application's running
    immediately. So if I decided to end my -- um,
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    stop the Word application from running,
    if I'd made changes to this discussing
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    screencast document those changes would not have been saved; it ends the process
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    abruptly, so you don't wish to use the
    "end task" unless something seems to be
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    frozen, it's not responding, it's
    consuming tons and tons of resources.
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    How do you know if a particular application
    or process is consuming a lot of
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    resources.I can see right now I'm only
    using three percent of the CPU down to 0%, 5%, 0%;
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    I'm not using very much at all. Physical
    memory, also, I'm not used utilizing
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    very much: 20%. But suppose the
    physical memory we're saying 80%
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    or 90%. Which of these,
    if any of them, is the culprit? For that, I
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    could go to "Processes." Now you can take a look and see -- Wow at all those Chrome
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    processes! Do I actually have Chrome open
    that many times on my computer?
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    No, I don't. I have opened up Chrome
    process, but i have a few tabs open. Every
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    time you open up a new tab in Chrome
    that starts a new process. I also have a
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    number of different extensions installed
    in Chrome. Any time any of the extensions
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    are running, that's going to start up a
    new process as well. So if you're
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    interested you can see these are the
    different processes. These are the user
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    names of the owners of the process how
    much CPU utilization it's using at the
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    moment, and at this point things are more
    or less idle, how much memory is being
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    consumed and a description of what that
    process is. If I'd like to see quickly
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    and easily which processes are using the
    most memory, I can just click on "Memory"
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    to sort, so I can see that Chrome and
    Internet Explorer seem to be the two
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    applications that are using the most
    memory. Similarly, you could sort by any
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    of these different fields. There are
    other tabs available that will give you
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    additional information; the contents of
    those tabs, however, are beyond the scope
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    of this discussion. Thank you very much.
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  • Revision 1 = provided subtitles for Lecture 1.2 of Prof. Scott Plous' Social Psychology course

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