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Hello. Today I'm going to be talking a[br]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[br]might be frozen and/or might be

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consuming exhorbitant amounts of[br]resources. There are a number of

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different ways that you can start the[br]Task Manager. You can right-click on the

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Task Bar at the bottom of your screen[br]and choose "Start Task Manager." You can

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hit Control/Alt/Delete and start[br]the Task Manager that way. My favorite

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way of starting it is holding the control[br]key down, holding the shift key down, and

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then hitting escape. Control/shift/escape[br]starts the Task Manager right up. And you

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can see right now that I've got five[br]different applications going. You can see

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what they are. In my browser I have -- I'm[br]open to a mail client. You can see I have

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four messages I need to attend to. My[br]Outlook calendar. I have a Word document

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open that's listing the topics that I[br]wish to discuss in Screencast-o-Matic

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Screencast-o-Matic is actually the[br]program that I'm making use of. So here

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I'm in Internet Explorer. I visited the[br]Screencast-o-Matic website and I'm in

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the process of recording this video. All[br]of these applications are running; that's

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a good thing. If you get "not responding,"[br]it might mean that the program is just

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doing some work and it will respond if[br]you give it a second or two, or it might

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mean that basically it's frozen it's not[br]going to work. If you have an application

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that you wish to stop abruptly -- I'm going[br]to start Firefox right now just so I

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have something that I can cancel. I can[br]end really quickly, and I'm not doing

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anything in -- If you click on one of the[br]applications and then choose "end task" it

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will end that application's running[br]immediately. So if I decided to end my -- um,

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stop the Word application from running, [br]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[br]"end task" unless something seems to be

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frozen, it's not responding, it's[br]consuming tons and tons of resources.

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How do you know if a particular application[br]or process is consuming a lot of

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resources.I can see right now I'm only[br]using three percent of the CPU down to 0%, 5%, 0%;

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I'm not using very much at all. Physical[br]memory, also, I'm not used utilizing

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very much: 20%. But suppose the[br]physical memory we're saying 80%

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or 90%. Which of these,[br]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[br]that many times on my computer?

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No, I don't. I have opened up Chrome[br]process, but i have a few tabs open. Every

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time you open up a new tab in Chrome[br]that starts a new process. I also have a

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number of different extensions installed[br]in Chrome. Any time any of the extensions

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are running, that's going to start up a[br]new process as well. So if you're

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interested you can see these are the[br]different processes. These are the user

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names of the owners of the process how[br]much CPU utilization it's using at the

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moment, and at this point things are more[br]or less idle, how much memory is being

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consumed and a description of what that[br]process is. If I'd like to see quickly

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and easily which processes are using the[br]most memory, I can just click on "Memory"

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to sort, so I can see that Chrome and[br]Internet Explorer seem to be the two

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applications that are using the most[br]memory. Similarly, you could sort by any

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of these different fields. There are[br]other tabs available that will give you

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additional information; the contents of[br]those tabs, however, are beyond the scope

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of this discussion. Thank you very much.