![]() ![]() The Settings applet looks much better in Windows 11 than on Windows 10 The design is much cleaner, for those parts of the software that use the modern user interface, such as the system's Settings application it makes Windows 10 look homemade by comparison. One thing at least is better in Windows 11. Settings app better, File Explorer worse? There is also a small "All apps" button, which is similar to the classic pop-up Start menu of yore, and "Type here to search," which searches across applications, documents, web, settings and more, giving the user a perplexity of results. Plenty of room is given to a "Recommended" panel of doubtful value. ![]() The new Start menu has little to customize, though users can still pin apps to a fixed space in its top half, which scrolls when full (a grid of 6 x 3 icons on our system). In Windows 11, Live Tiles, named groups, and resizable panels have been swept away. The Photo app is an example, which can not only be set large but will also cycle through recently added photos and images. Out of the box, the Windows 10 Start panel is an annoyance, but with a bit of effort can be made into a useful application launcher, with named groups and icons that in some cases come in four sizes: small, medium, wide or large. Microsoft will have optimizing this in mind for its new and recent Surface devices. These include spaced-out icons and new gestures, and possibly a new touch keyboard. That said, Redmond appears to have a replacement in the form of "new functionality and capability for keyboard attach and detach," as this Microsoft representative notes. ![]() Tablet Mode was meant to restore a touch-friendly experience in Windows 10, but never worked right and caused confusion. Although Windows 8 failed to convince users for all sorts of reasons, it was cleverly designed for touch users, more so than any version of Windows before or since (excepting perhaps Windows Phone). ![]() Removed features include Quick Status on the lockscreen, S Mode (except in Home edition), Tablet Mode, and the ability to align the taskbar other than to the bottom of the screen. The curious can find the official list of removed and deprecated features here. If the centered Start menu and taskbar icons aren't to your liking, you can shove them to the left, as on Windows 10, in Windows 11's personalization settings. Also, the system can inform you of certain processes essential for the operating system to run correctly.Options for the 'taskbar corner overflow' You can also use AI with Bing Chat or Google Bard to get more details about the process. If you are not clear on the process that you're about to terminate, right-click it and choose the "Search online" option to open the web browser with results that can help you understand the process. You can do this by clicking the "Run new task" button in Task Manager, typing the name of the service, and clicking the "OK" button. In some cases, you may need to restart the process manually. Once you close the processes, you can relaunch the application from the Start menu, and this action should also restart the required processes. If possible, it's always recommended to save your work before proceeding. It's important to note that terminating one or a group of processes will crash the application, and in some cases, it can also crash the system. Right-click the process and choose the "End task" option. Once the issue hogging the system resources has been identified, you have multiple ways to terminate the process. If the problem is related to a streaming application, web app, or downloading a file, the activity in the "Network" column is stuck at zero percent. The drive usage should be around five percent unless you're doing rendering or copying tasks.įinally, network speeds and connectivity will only slow down tasks that require a local or internet connection, but it won't affect the system's performance. It'll slow down the performance, but the system won't crash.ĭepending on the system configuration, you should keep the memory usage to sixty percent. Unless the computer runs out of memory, this won't become an issue, and even so, after the memory runs out, the system will start using its virtual memory as an overflow. Running apps (even if you're not using them) and processes will still consume some memory, and the usage will increase as you load more apps. Usually, if you're not actively using the device and the system isn't running maintenance tasks, the processor shouldn't spike over thirty percent. Task Manager, to make things even easier, uses a bolder color to highlight the process that uses the most resources. ![]()
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