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 ...

The most neglected feature of Windows since it landed in 1995, Task Manager has finally received some love in Windows 8. Here's what's new. David Gilson has always revelled in tech and started writing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...