Task Manager is a useful tool that you've almost certainly used while checking your Windows PC for errors, but this common ...

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I stopped relying on Task Manager after discovering the hidden Windows activity it ignores.

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To improve performance on Windows 11, you can safely end processes like unused apps, bloatware (e.g., Copilot, Phone Link), high-resource processes, and peripheral-related programs via Task Manager.

In this AppControl review, we explore how the third-party tool offers much deeper insight into your PC’s activity than Windows Task Manager.

Task Manager is fine for checking which app is eating your CPU or how much RAM Chrome has claimed for itself. But it stops at surface-level numbers, shows percentages, process names, and not much else ...

At a glance, AppControl might just look like a pretty reskin, but under the hood it does all the things we wished Task Manager could do.