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Managing Processes and Tasks in Windows Vista
Task Manager is basically a troubleshooting tool that can provide quick and dirty information about what applications and processes are running on a machine, CPU utilization, memory usage, network utilization, and so on. Let's take a tour of how Task Manager has been enhanced on the Vista platform based on the February CTP build that's widely available to beta testers. Note that for purposes of the demos below we're logged on to Vista using an administrator level account not a standard user (user account protection may result in different prompts for standard users). This article looks at new capabilities in Windows Vista for managing processes and scheduling tasks and how administrators can use these capabilities for maintaining and troubleshooting systems. (continue at source)