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Mac Task Manager How to Open it and Stop a Process

April 5, 2018 By Abhishek Yadav 35 Comments

Mac Task Manager How to Open it and Stop a Process:

Windows is one of the most well-known OS that most of the people were familiar with, But when the people switch to MAC OS then the whole environment changes so that many people will think that MAC is not as efficient as Windows, But its wrong MAC offers all the features which windows do, One of the features that many of the people want to know is “Does MAC has a Task manager“, The simplest answer to that Question is “YES”, So in this post we can learn about Mac Task Manager How to Open it and Stop a Process.

Mac Task Manager:

Yes MAC has a Taskmanager but it is called as Activity Monitor in MAC, In Windows, we can open Task Manager by just clicking CLRL+ALT+DELETE, But for MAC there is another process to open Activity Monitor.

Note: Remember that the Mac Task Manager is called as an Activity Monitor.

Mac Task Manager

How to Access Activity Monitor in MAC:

You can access Activity Monitor mainly in two ways:

1. Go to Applications then Utilities and you can find the shortcut for Activity Monitor right there.

2. Another shortest way is to open spotlight and type there you can easily get access to Mac Task Manager that means Activity monitor.

Mac Task Manager

Killing a Process:

After opening the Activity Monitor just like windows you can observe the process which are running in the background now the thing is if you want to stop or kill any process just right-click on that process and tap on Quit if the application does not respond tap on force quit isn’t that easy.Mac Task Manager

Understanding Activity Monitor:

Just like Windows task manager, Activity monitor also shows the heartbeat of your PC there are many tabs included in it which shows different types of data. So Let’s see the in-depth details of each tab.

CPU Tab:

In this tab, you can observe all the process that effect or slowdowns the system.

In this tab, you can even sort the CPU percentage used by each process. In the below of this process, there will be some in-depth data with graphs, The user data states that the percentage of the CPU that currently used by the apps you currently opened, and the idle option states that the percentage of CPU capability that not being used.

Mac Task Manager

Memory Tab:

Memory tab shows the information about how the memory is being used.

And at the bottom, you can observe more details about memory such as physical memory, used memory, cached files and a lot more you can even observe the memory pressure within a graph, the green line indicates the available memory resources then the Yellow line indicates that CPU storage is available but are being tasked by memory management process and finally red line indicates that CPU storage is not available but using your startup drive for memory.

Mac Task Manager

Energy Tab:

This energy tab indicates about overall energy and energy utilized by each process.

It mainly indicates the details about the Energy Impact, details about the graphics card and lot more about the battery details.

Mac Task Manager

Disk Tab:

This tab contains all the details about the disk information about the disk, Literally, it indicates the data about how many times that your mac access your disk to read and write data.

To view the information about the disk in the dock you need to click on View >> Dock Icon >> Show Disk activity.

Mac Task Manager

Network Tab:

Coming on to the list this is the last tab and this tab indicates how much data your Mac is sending or receiving.

Using this tab you can easily find which process is sending more data and you can stop it.

Mac Task Manager

If you have any doubt regarding MAC search in Official Apple Support

Also check : How to solve Tinder Error 40303

Final Words:

This activity monitor is a heartbeat checker for your Mac you can easily find the details about each and every process within a single click. And the most interesting thing is you can easily solve some of the complex problems using this Activity monitor isn’t it sounds weird, in my sense, there are very simple solutions to more complex problems,For example, if there is any process which slows down your mac it can be easily solved by checking Activity monitor but some people will think that it was a complex problem and they will run to the store.I think you have learned something by reading this article, do share your thoughts and views in the comment section below.

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