Windows 7 Task Manager – Applications
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The Applications tab pretty much shows you what you see in your taskbar at the bottom of the screen.
I’ve got a folder open with pictures in, Firefox browsing a brilliant PC advice website 
, Skype, eBay Turbo Lister, TweetDeck and LiveWriter that I’m using now. I’ve also got 7 buttons in my taskbar for the items above (Task Manager itself not showing up in this list)
When something crashes, you can check here to see if it says “Not responding…”. If it appears to have hung, namely no response after 30-60 seconds, just hit end task down at the bottom.
Occasionally you can’t get back to a window you were on for some reason. If it shows up in this list, clicking “Switch To” might bring it into focus.
The New Task button is the same as the run dialog – application names can be put in here to fire them up. About the only real use for this is when your explorer.exe has crashed and you get nothing but a black screen. Open Task Manager and run explorer.exe and all should come back to life.
For a more detailed view of all the programs running at once, you need to view the Processes tab, a guide on which is in the next post.
Tags: task manager, Windows 7, Windows Vista
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Zoran