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Figure 12-19 CPU usage

Networking and Users The other two tabs in the Task Manager,

Networking and Users, enable you to see network use at a glance and see

which users’ accounts are currently logged on to the local machine. The

Networking tab is a good first spot to look if you think the computer is

running slowly on the network. If there’s little activity displayed, then it’s not

traffic from your computer that’s causing the slowdown, so you need to look

elsewhere. Chapter 19, “Local Area Networking,” covers network

troubleshooting in a lot more detail, so we’ll leave the Networking tab alone

for now.

If you have the proper permissions, the Users tab enables you to log off

any user (even yours), freeing system resources (including files locked for

editing) for other users. Be careful! Logging a user off closes his or her

applications and discards any unsaved changes in the process.

Task Manager in Windows 8/8.1/10

Now that you know a little about the Task Manager in the days before

Windows 8, let’s look at how the significant update it received has shuffled

things around and improved its usefulness. The latest Task Manager has a

new Fewer details view (see Figure 12-20) with a dead-simple interface for

seeing and terminating running programs. For some users, this is all they’ll

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