WORK WITH TASK MANAGER IN WINDOWS
In this challenge lab, you will explore Task Manager in more depth. You may have to research
how to perform some of the tasks. Once you are finished, you will answer some questions.
On your Windows computer, start Task Manager and be sure you see the Processes,
Performance, and other tabs. From the Processes tab, right-click any process and click Go to
details. You see more information about the process in the Details tab. Sort the list of
processes by name and then by status. In the Details tab, add columns that report the total CPU
time used by the process and the number of threads in the process.
Questions:
1. What did you do to start the list of processes?
2. How did you add columns to the Details tab?
3. What process used the most CPU time? What do you think is the purpose of this
process?