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PART I
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INSTALLATION, CONFIGURATION, AND CUSTOMIZATION
Manage applications with Task Manager
Task Manager is a jack-of-all-trades application that provides a wealth of
information about the overall health of Windows. Most frequently it is used
to kill applications and processes that have crashed and are no longer
responding.
You can launch Task Manager (see Figure 3.31) in three different ways:
Right-click on the taskbar and then click Task Manager; press Ctrl+Shift+Esc;
or press Ctrl+Alt+Del. The latter will either bring up Task Manager, if you are
in a workgroup, or bring up the Windows Security dialog box if you are in a
domain, where you can then click the Task Manager button.
Figure 3.31. Task Manager displays a list of what is running on your
computer.
Click the Applications tab and you will see a list of all running applica-
tions on your system and each application’s status. If the program has
crashed and has stopped responding — your mouse cursor moves but you
cannot open menus or click the close button — Task Manager shows you the
helpful message “Not Responding.” Click the unresponsive application in
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