A customer's Windows 10 laptop is running slowly while it is in use-not just during startup. Which Windows utility lets you view real-time CPU, memory, disk, and network usage so you can quickly identify the process that is causing the slow-down?
Task Manager (taskmgr.exe) displays live resource statistics for CPU, memory, disk, and network activity. By sorting the columns you can immediately spot a process that is consuming excessive resources, helping you determine why the system is running slowly. System Configuration (msconfig.exe) and System Properties (sysdm.cpl) can help with other types of troubleshooting, and Activity Monitor is a macOS tool, so they do not provide the same real-time performance view in Windows.
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