User's Manual

Administer and Control
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TuneUp Process Manager
With TuneUp Process Manager, you have control over the applications that are
running on your system at all times and can monitor your system activity.
You can find out how much memory is being used by any program, view details
on running processes and terminate unwanted processes with a single mouse
click. The module also offers live graphs for processor and memory usage and
provides valuable information on what your computer is doing at any given time.
This information is presented in three different tabs.
Processes
Once the module is started, all currently running programs and processes are
shown in the Processes tab. The names of the processes can be seen in the table
together with their priority and CPU usage. The module also shows how much
memory is being used by each process.
If you wish to view more information on an application or a process, you can
select it in the list and then click Show Details. Click Terminate Process to
close a program. This is a somewhat drastic measure, but is sometimes necessary
to close a program that has hung, or if you want to stop an unwanted dialer.
It’s hard to believe
how many processes
are running on a
freshly started
computer.