Quick overview:
If you often want to keep an eye on your system resources and monitor computer performance, it is advisable to move the task manager to Autostart. It should be minimized directly in the systray at the bottom right next to the clock. So you have convenient access to it at all times. And this is how it works:
1. Select the entry Run in the Start menu, whereupon a command line appears in which you now enter regedit and confirm.
2. Now navigate through the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and right-click in the right-hand pane. Now select New/string and name it Task Manager.
3. Now double-click on your self-created value and enter the line c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe" /c "start" /min C:\winnt\system32\taskmgr.exe. It is important that you adjust the paths C:\winnt according to your individual folder structure.
After a restart, the task manager remains informative in the bar right next to the clock!
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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