With the latest Windows Release Preview, Microsoft is fixing a problem that has persisted for years: Its Task Manager CPU usage stats didn't make a lot of sense. This change was originally announced ...

To use the Windows 11/10 Task Manager as a widget, right-click on your Windows taskbar and select Task Manager to open it. Open Performance tab. Next right-click anywhere on the left side, where CPU, ...

If you have a quad-core CPU with eight logical cores after Hyper-Threading, you have probably noticed that the Performance tab of the Windows 7 Task Manager really struggles to display real-time ...

One of the aspects of the current Windows Task Manager UI that doesn't scale particularly well, even on existing systems, is the CPU Usage monitor. Trying to track more than four cores quickly ...

I have an i7 running Windows 7 64 bit. When I built it it would show 8 CPU graphs in task manager. Now, I have not been in there lately, but was encoding a video yesterday and turned it on to see how ...

You can now more accurately manage your tasks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Updated March 19, 2025: Microsoft has now put the ...