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Prior to my current role, I covered software and apps for ExtremeTech, and before that I headed up PCMag’s enterprise software team, but I’m happy to be back in the more accessible realm of consumer software. I was privileged to byline the cover story of the last print issue of PC Magazine, the Windows 7 review, and I’ve witnessed every Microsoft win and misstep up to the latest Windows 11. I’ve been reviewing software for PCMag since 2008, and I still get a kick of seeing what's new in video and photo editing software, and how operating systems change over time. PC hardware is nice, but it’s not much use without innovative software. Finally, you can sign up for our Windows 11 newsletter.

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However, I don’t recommend doing it, as it could have unexpected consequences or cause system instability.įor more full coverage of Microsoft’s new operating system, read our in-depth Windows 11 review and be sure to check our Windows 11 page for the latest news, tips, and reviews. There you can right-click on the app’s process to suspend or resume it. If you really want to do this manually, you have to open another utility, the Resource Monitor (type resmon in the Run box). You can’t pause and unpause the apps yourself, because that state is determined by the system based on the app’s activity. The yellow Pause icon is your clue that an app that may appear to be running and using system resources is actually in pause mode. A new keyboard shortcut lets you put an app in the mode: Alt-V.Ī new feature of the Taskbar for Windows 11’s 22H2 version lets you see which UWP apps are paused to spare processing power and improve efficiency of power usage. After clicking the Efficiency mode button, it dropped to 15%. I tried it with the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app, which was taking up more than 35% of my PC's CPU processing power. Tap the arrow to expand an app entry to show its subprocesses, click on the resource-hungry process, and then select Efficiency mode. Note that you can only use this mode for processes, not on the overall app entry in the top list. A warning message tells you that turning on the mode will lower the process’s priority and possibly cause an associated application to run with instability. Then click the Efficiency mode button at top right. To use the new Efficiency mode, tap on a process entry to select it. Sometimes there’s no getting around using an app with high power needs, but you may see something in there that you don’t expect, and you can then shut down its process. It summarizes the app’s use of all the other hardware components you see individually in previous columns. It doesn’t show numbers, but rather Low, High, or Very High. If you don’t want anything from that program running, you can disable its services.Īnother column you can add to the Task Manager’s list is Power Usage.

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Some programs install them and leave them running whether or not you have the associated app open. They’re useful for running your printer service, antivirus software, or the system clock, to give a few examples. A service is a process that runs in the background for all users and is managed by Windows-they don’t have user interfaces.

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Pro tip: Task Manager also has a Services page. You can also right-click the process and choose Disable from the context menu. If you find something in there that you don’t feel is necessary to be running every time you turn your computer on, it’s a simple matter to Select the process and then tap the Disable button. You can find such auto running processes In Task Manager’s Startup Apps section. The result can be that a lot of processes are running even when you don’t want to use the associated applications.