Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.

If you are like most Windows users, you probably only open Task Manager when something goes wrong. Maybe an app froze, or your PC fans suddenly started spinning loudly. But Task Manager is far more ...

Dive past Task Manager to see per-process disk writes, open handles, and the remote IPs a service is contacting.

Windows 11 is far from perfect, but it does make Task Manager significantly better. It's modern, has a search bar, and easy-to-understand graphs. But what are some of the lesser-known features of the ...