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If my window has the 'always on top' extended style set, I would expect it to be on top of all windows that do not have the 'Always on top' style set and those windows that have the 'Always on top' style set but were activated before my window was activated.

Is there something special that they are doing with the task manager in Windows 10? If yes, is there some work around for bringing my window on top of the task manager? I have tried simply using the BringWindowToTop function, but that doesn't work. Neither does setWindowPos with HWND_TOP as a value for hWndInsertAfter argument.

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There were lots of changes made to the Task Manager in Windows 8. It would not be at all surprising that among those changes was special-case code to ensure it was always on top of all other always-on-top windows. Microsoft would not be breaking any contractual guarantees by doing so, since the Task Manager is a built-in part of the operating system. It is free to do as it likes with OS components.

When two different windows have this style set, the behavior is implementation-dependent. The only guarantee that you get is windows with the WS_EX_TOPMOST style are always on top of other windows without this style in the Z order. The system is otherwise free to resolve conflicts as it sees fit, including keeping the most recently-active topmost window on top, breaking the tie by forcing windows belonging to system components to the top, or even punishing processes that have more than one window with this style by forcing their window(s) to the bottom of the "topmost" stack.

I don't use powershell. Let's get that out of the way, but today I've spotted Windows Powershell running, then disappearing, then coming back again a bit later in task-manager. I'm scared that some hacker is running scripts that I don't want.

Also, I don't think I have to tell you this since you mentioned improvements (and without doing this I wouldn't really call the new task manager improved), but I'm going to do it anyway just in case: Don't forget to click the "More details" button at the bottom if you don't see any tabs at all ;)

Tip: If you double click on the graph view, you can toggle a summary view where only the graph is displayed and can easily be floated over other windows. If you double click the summary view you can return to the full view.

EDIT to make the question clearer: I am looking for a task manager that clearly displays the information in those four columns: a breakup of processor, memory, disk and network usage by process, possibly in an uncluttered UI and without other spurious information. I can find plenty of system monitoring tools on Linux that display only the first two columns of that table. I can also find tools that plot total network usage vs. time. Both do not seem as effective as Windows 10's task manager: they do not allow me to immediately identify which of the four is the bottleneck on my system and which process uses up the most of that resource.

I have filtered out the background Processes(with some exception) and shown only user-specific Processes (user parent and child process like in windows) which makes it easy to spot processes that you are interested in instead of finding out from the pool of all process that gnome-system-monitor shows.

You can use nvidia-smi.exe to monitor GPUs. Please use a windows file find utility, such as the one available in Windows File Manager, to locate the install location of this utility on your system. The utility has command line help available (run with -h switch).

My laptop is quite new, and I make sure I don't install insecure software, also I manually disable all the background services, and scheduled tasks that are not from Windows or imperative to run the OS.

The Windows Task Manager gets rid of this uncertainty by offering an overview of all applications running in the background. When you discover an unnecessary process, you also have the option of ending this directly from the Task Manager. The practical tool provides detailed information on individual processes. Below you can see a quick overview of the most important tasks in the Task Manager:

Windows offers several options for opening the Task Manager. The handy program can be called up using your mouse, your keyboard, or a nifty Task Manager key combination. The option you go for depends on your personal preference. If your operating system is no longer responding properly, however, opening the Task Manager is the way to go. This is the case if all programs and windows are frozen.

Finally, Windows also provides the option of searching your whole computer for content of all types. You can use this option to find and open the Task Manager quickly. In Windows 10, the search field is usually located directly on the taskbar (otherwise in the Start menu).

I know the tasklist command in Windows will give a list of task names and their PID. There is another command WMIC path win32_process get Commandline which does give more detailed information, but its output is much messier and sometimes unpredictable (so its very hard to write a pattern/regex against it, especially with findstr in MSDOS!)

So, I am wondering in Windows, is there a way to query the task manager directly to find an image name and the command line part of it? I figure if the task manager itself can find this information, there must be a way.

Windows task manager and macOS Activity Monitor are essentially the same thing but for different OS so they will, by nature, appear different and show different data since, again, the mac and Windows OS are completely different platforms.

My CPU usage is always at 90% or 100%. But when I open task manager, after a couple of seconds it drops to 30-50%. Suspecting malwares, I started a new topic here (link below) but after several steps/fixes, there were no malwares identified in the system. The staff recommended me to create my own topic in this forum to see if its Windows related.

It sounds like it is most likely some kind of idle task and/or conditional scheduled task executing in the background and when you launch Task Manager (or likely any other new active/primary process) the background task subsides until the system is in an idle state again. When this occurs, are you seeing any network/bandwidth usage by any chance? The reason I ask is because it is possible that it is something like Windows Update running in the background when the system isn't active. Another possibility would be something like the built in search indexer or an antivirus if you're using a third party AV that perhaps performs a background scan whenever the system is idle (Kaspersky has a function like this and I believe a few other AVs do as well).

So that's a start, and while there are still a lot of items running at startup/in the background on your system, I don't want to do too much yet as I see you've already apparently done this using MSConfig and I don't want to damage anything by messing with your system too much (and just for future reference, using MSConfig as a startup manager is generally a bad idea as it is intended more as a diagnostic tool than anything; a dedicated tool like Autoruns is much better suited to this task, though caution should be taken no matter what is being used as disabling the wrong thing with any tool could cause major problems with a system).

That said, I still think there very likely is something causing background CPU spiking/resource usage on the OP's system, especially after looking at the Autoruns file that was provided. There are a lot of background processes, monitors and other tasks running in the background that very likely are eating available resources during normal operation. This is why I prefer to do my performance tuning/tweaking/cleaning/maintenance tasks manually on my own schedule rather than having programs constantly running in the background to manage it for me, because every added task that runs in the background constantly will consume that much more memory and that many more CPU cycles, taking away from the available power I have to throw at resource intensive applications that I might want to prioritize like running a game or encoding a video etc.

The problem is with the Windows Audio Device Isolation service that keeps running all the time despite 'ending task' often. Please note that my CPU fan speed is ALWAYS super high So it's hard to convince myself that its just a Windows bug in displaying the wrong % for the initial few seconds.

Hey, I guess you haven't plugged in your charger. Try plugging in your charger and check the task manager. For me, when I plug in the charger and check task manager, the CPU usage reduces from about 80-100% to about 1 or 2% within very few seconds. And without the charger connected, it behaves similarly to @AdvancedSetup 's case (From 40-50% to again 1 or 2%).

You could always install the Systernals Process Explorer program (can get through the MS Store). It allows non admins to see the processes that are running and can be a bit more detailed. Might be a quicker workaround instead of trying to run the taskmgr program.

Thanks you so much for everyone's feedback and ideas. I'm scratching my head on this one..... When I began creating my baseline machine image for Windows 11 Pro, I was unable to run the task manager unless I had admin privileges. I finally had the opportunity to try out some of your suggestions and low and behold.....it's working. I swear I did absolutely nothing. I tried it on a few machines and under a few different logins and task manager worked like a charm each and every time I attempted to open and end a task as a common user. Maybe there was fix in the recent updates that addressed this issue? We may never know LOL! I'm glad it's working and everyone provided some very good suggestions. Sorry they were wasted on this!

I have a strange issue with the latest 12.0.20 . for some reason Cubase app wont completely shutdown. There is an instance left stuck in Task Manager under the Background processes and the only way to stop it is to use the End task option in Task Manager. This happens on windows 11. ff782bc1db