A Windows 10 support technician suspects that a script running on a workstation is leaking memory because the system slows down after several hours of use. Which built-in Windows tool should the technician use FIRST to watch a single process's memory consumption in real time and confirm the leak?
Task Manager's Processes and Performance tabs show each process's working-set and private-bytes values in real time. If the values for the suspect script continue to rise while the script is running, the technician can confirm a memory leak. Event Viewer logs events, Disk Cleanup removes temporary files, and Device Manager handles hardware drivers-none of these display live per-process memory usage.
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