Questions tagged [task-manager]
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windows 2003 Problem running a task with a non-interactive domain user
I've created a user account to run some tasks, If I run the task with my account but using "Run As" taskmanager user, the task runs ok (no permission problems, and get what I'm expecting). But if I run the same task using taskmanager It fails 0x1…
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What is EngineServer.exe and should I kill it?
I've got this process running on my work computer and it's starting to take up quite a bit of memory. I know it belongs to McAffee but, is it possible to disable it directly? killing it from the Task Manager doesn't work.
Thanks
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"ps -aux" or "top" equivalent for Windows Server
I need to check which processes are running on a Windows Server instance, I'm looking for something similar to top or ps -aux, but I'm only finding references to use Task Manager with GUI.
What is the best way to check the running processes via…
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Process with very high RAM usage takes very long to stop using force stop in Task Manager
We have a Windows Server 2016 with around physical 700GB RAM. A colleague of mine ran a machine learning script in Matlab, that loaded 25GB of data in RAM and during the training the RAM usage increased up to 350GB (usual behavior for many AI…
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How to enable disk performance display in Windows 2019 task manager?
On Windows server the disk performance is not displayed by default in Task Manager.
For Windows 2012R2 (and some other versions) it can be enabled by the command diskperf -y (and restarting Task Manager).
This does not work on Windows 2019. Is there…
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Alternate a task Windows Task Scheduler
I'm looking for a good way to alternate a task within the Windows Task Scheduler.
One Saturday, run Task A. Then the next Saturday, run Task B. Then repeat.
Any suggestions on how to accomplish that within one single Task or the Windows Task…
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Task Manager greyed out only for some users
On a Windows Server 2012 R2 system joined to a domain, the Task Manager is greyed out from the right-click menu from the task bar, but only for some users. Nothing is explicitly set in Group Policy and I cannot find anything in the Local Policy…
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Core usage of my VMWare instance?
Not sure why this has been flagged by a user simply because they are not reading the question, however to clarify this is being run on EXSi in a business setting and as such I believe it belongs here. I urge people to please read the question before…
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