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In truth, Affinity is a case of ‘Mother knows best’. Note, never set programs to Real Time, it will cripple your machine and require a reboot – you have been warned.Īffinity means that one program can be associated exclusively with one processor, naturally you need a multi processor machine for this setting to even appear. If you right-click any process then you can adjust Priority, typically you have a spreadsheet calculating in the background while you want to give a foreground application like Outlook more CPU time slices. Again my idea is to use the Task Manager to display information quickly without resorting to setting up the System Monitor and Log Counters. When using the Processes tab to troubleshoot be aware that you can add extra columns, for example Virtual Memory, IO Reads and Writes. Other viruses have more innocuous names like Tlntsvr.exe and Wina.exe, so this is why I urge you to know the Processes Image names. Here was a case where I needed to check the registry as the blaster virus cunningly re-infects those who are not diligent. How about msblast.exe? Was this a game that my nephew had installed? Well I tried a search in Google and up came W32/BlasterA virus. At first I thought my machine has been infected by a virus, but no, it was actually my virus checker which had installed itself as a process. Returning to the theme of identifying rogue programs what would think if you saw Avgserv and Agvcc32 amongst the image names? When I saw these processes, I must admit my heart missed a beat.

The interesting fact about all these svchost is that some services would fight if put together in the same Image Name process, so the operating system separates incompatible services and puts them in separate svchosts. Could you have been infect 7 times by a strange virus? No, svchost is the generic name for an image shared by the operating systems services, for example, Alerter, Net Logon, Print Spooler. Moreover, by identifying the ‘good guys’ you will learn how applications such as Exchange and SQL interact with the operating system.Īt first svchost seems suspicious. The more of these Image Names that you can match to programs or processes, the easier it is detect impostors such as viruses. Here is a tab for the support professional, in fact the more ‘Image Names’ that you can identify the better techie you are.

With Task Manager I like to remove the tick which says ‘ Always on top’. Tip: One of the joys of using any new program is setting the preferences.

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Assuming that your group policy allows users access to this tab, why not send out an email reminding users of how to use this Applications tab when their machine hangs and programs are ‘Not Responding’.Īnother use of the Applications Tab is to discover the underlying Image Name of a program, simply right-click and then select: Go to Process.

No doubt you have already used task manager’s Application Tab to end process for programs that hang or do not respond. An application tab for zapping programs, a process tab for checking for viruses, a performance tab to calculate the pagefile, and now a network utilization tab to see how much activity there is on the LAN or WAN.

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(As ever Microsoft provide 3 ways of doing everything, so you can right-click the grey bar at the bottom of your screen and select Task Manger.) Topics for Task Manager in Windows ServerĮach of the five tabs has it’s own personality, I recommend that you get to know the capabilities of each one. There will be occasions when you just need a quick piece of system information, calling for your task manager can be just as effective as the performance logs but much faster.Įxecute the Task manger by holding down the CTRL +SHIFT +ESC keys if you have long fingers, try launching it with just your left hand. Introduction to Windows Server Task Managerĭo not neglect Windows Server 2008 or 2003’s Task Manager.

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