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To end a process or program that has frozen up on you, click it in the list box on
the Applications tab and then click the End Task command button. Note that
you’ll probably get an alert dialog box indicating that the program has stopped
responding. Click the End command button in this dialog box (as many times as
you have to) to get Windows 7 to kill the process.
The status bar of Windows Task Manager shows you statistics on the number of
processes running under the program, the percentage of the CPU (Central
Processing Unit, the big chip at the heart of the computer), and the memory
usage of the program. If you like to look at schematics, click the Performance
tab in this window to see a dynamic charting of the total CPU and memory usage
on your computer (and to find really useful stuff like the number of handles,
threads, and processes that are being run).
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