Mac os Task Manager

Although called the Activity Monitor, many Mac switches still rely on the utilities as the Windows Task Manager name, keep in mind that regardless of the jargon used, it is the same program that is debated and used. Keep in minds that the Task Manager for Mac = Activity Monitor! When you are used to Windows, press Control+ALT+DEL to access the Task Manager.

Start the application directly in its own location, via LaunchPad, by dragging and dropping it into the Dock, or with spotlight for fast key pad accessibility. The Activity Monitor is in your /Applications/Utilities/ folders area. Mac OS X's easiest way to get to Activity Monitor is to use Spotlight as a key combination for fast access:

It is often useful to organize a task by type of CPU, but you can organize it by name, storage use, task ID, and use the top-right find field to find certain items that contain a name or character. It is very efficient because it shows you not only what programs are executed for the current end node, but also system-level jobs, core jobs, demons, processes belonging to other end nodes, in the true sense of the word each one.

In the Activity Monitor, just click the task or task you want to quit, and then click the big rote "Quit Process" icon in the upper right hand corner ofthe Apple pane. Instead, if the appliance does not respond, you can click the Force Quit icon to immediately stop the operation and stop the execution of the appliance without further alerts.

If you look at the lower part of the Activity Monitor, you can also get information about the system use of your Mac. Simply click the tabbed pages to view information about your computer processor, system memory, disk utilization, disk utilization (disk space), and network utilization and performance. To keep track of the statistics and activities of the system at all times, minimise the size of the Dock activity monitor, then right-click on the Dock symbol to activate various system activities displays directly in the Dock that display graphics instead of the default one.

They can be configured to be CPU (probably the most useful), networking, hard drive operation and memory utilization related. I often suggest that new Mac OS X customers keep the latest Switchertivity Monitor in their dock for ease of use until they become more comfortable with Spotlight and how their Mac works. Good thing is that you will hardly ever use Active Monitor because Mac OS and the programs it contains run much better than Windows, but it's good to have it readily available in case something goes wrong.