This is a great capability because it allows you to avoid terminating dependent applications (Outlook in this case) in some circumstances. Had the target application hung, I could have terminated the target application from this dialog. In this scenario, I printed from Outlook to an application and then invoked the analyze wait chain dialog while Outlook was waiting on the target application to complete the printing process. To show how this feature works, I cleared my usage data (default is 30 day rolling window) by clicking the “Delete usage history” link and then performed some everyday tasks: installing apps from the store and browsing the web.Īnalyze wait chain dialog in the Windows 8 Task Manager – (Click/Tap to enlarge) Tip: On the app history tab, you can go to “Options à show history for all processes” to see historical resource utilization for all apps. By default, the view shows only Windows Store App resource utilization. The App History tab shows historical resource utilization metrics for apps. If you haven’t already, I suggest you spend some time exploring the capabilities in the Windows 8 Task Manager performance tab, there’s a lot of information available in this view! App History Tab Tip: With the memory graph displayed, if you hover over the “Slots used” label below the graph you’ll get a summary of slots used by number, and the speed of the memory in each slot. If you double click the summary view you can return to the full view. Tip: If you double click on the graph view, you can toggle a summary view where only the graph is displayed and can easily be floated over other windows. To switch between these CPU utilization views, right-click on the graph view, select “Change Graph To” and pick the graph option you want to see. If resource utilization has reached a critical level, the value will be shown with a red background as seen here:ĬPU performance graphs from left: overall utilization, NUMA nodes, logical processors – (Click/Tap to enlarge) The heat map is color-coded with low resource utilization shown in pale yellow, with darker shades of yellow and orange representing progressively greater resource utilization. The heat map (shown in varying shades of yellow and orange above) is a visualization of the resource utilization for processes which makes it easy to pinpoint where high resource utilization is taking place. Apps are sorted out at the top, making it easy to find, monitor, and manage apps without having to scan all processes and scroll through many items as you had to in prior versions of Task Manager. In the Windows 8 Task Manager, running processes are sorted by apps, non-Windows background processes, and Windows processes. On the Processes tab, there are two primary components of the UI: Running processes (left side) and the heat map (right side). Windows 8 Task Manager: Processes Tab (default view when expanded) – (Click/Tap to enlarge)
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