Task Manager is the one stop destination for tracking and monitoring all the functions, processes, which are working and running on your Windows device. When you open the Task Manager, it shows a plethora of columns. Each column has specific meaning. Check them out!
- PID: The acronym for PID is Process Identifier which is nothing but a unique identification number assigned to any process by Windows OS. With the help of PID, the process identifies the processes.
- User Name: It is the user account under which the processes are running. If you have multiple user accounts, then this User name is the identifier.
- Session ID: When there are multiple users, every user’s use session is assigned an ID. By this, the owner of a session is identified If multiple users are logged in to the computer.
- CPU Usage: The percentage of time for which a process utilized the CPU.
- CPU Time: The total processor time utilized by a process since its initiation, in seconds.
- Memory – Working Set: It is defined by the size of the memory in the private working set, shared by the other processes.
- Memory – Peak Working Set: It is defined by the Maximum size of working set memory used by the process.
- Memory – Working Set Delta: Working set delta is the mount of change in working set memory used by the process.
- Memory – Private Working Set: It is basically the subset of working set delta. In simple words, it is memory used by a process, which cannot be shared by any other process.
- Memory – Commit Size: The virtual memory that is meant for use by any process.
- Memory – Paged Pool: The pageable kernel memory allocated by the kernel or drivers on behalf of a process.
- Memory – Non-paged Pool: On the contrary this is the amount of non-pageable kernel memory allocated by the kernel or drivers on behalf of a process.
- Page Faults: When a
process starts, page faults also occur. This entry records the number of page
faults. - Page Fault Delta: The
change in the number of page faults since the last update. - Base Priority: A ranking
assigned to determine the order in which the threads of a particular process is
scheduled.
- Handles: The number of object handles in a process’s object table. It helps users to track port exhaustion issue.
- Threads: It is nothing but the number of threads running in a process.
- USER Objects: When a process uses USER objects, the number of user objects is shown in this field. User objects may include
hooks, accelerators, monitors, keyboard layouts, windows, menus, cursors, icons, , and other internal objects. - GDI Objects: The number of objects from the Graphics Device Interface (GDI) library of application programming interfaces (APIs) for graphics output devices.
- Image Path Name: Where the process is located on the hard disk.
- Command Line: Command line that initiated the process.
- User Account Control (UAC) Virtualization: Indicates if UAC is enabled, disabled or not set.
- Description: The description of a process running.
- Data Execution Prevention: Indicates if data execution prevention is enabled or disabled for this process.
- I/O Reads: The number of read input/output operations generated by the process. The operations for this entry are file, network, and device I/Os.
- I/O Writes: The number of write input/output operations generated by the process.
- I/O Other: The number of input/output operations generated by the process that are neither a read nor a write.
- I/O Read Bytes: The number of bytes read in input/output operations generated by the process.
- I/O Write Bytes: The number of bytes written in input/output operations generated by the process.
- I/O Other Bytes: The number of bytes transferred in input/output operations generated by the process that are neither a read nor a write.
That’s all! Hope this article helped you !
