A task manager is a program used to provide information about the processes and programs running on a computer, as well as the general status of the computer. It can also be used to terminate processes and programs, as well as change the processes' priority.

[edit] Common task managers

• Activity Monitor on Mac OS X (known as Process Viewer prior to Mac OS X v10.3)
• top (Unix) utility present in most Unix-like systems and the archetype after which others are modeled.
• Windows Task Manager on Microsoft Windows
• AIX procmon GUI process monitoring tool.
• GKrellM on BSD, Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X, and Windows
• KDE System Guard and KTop on KDE 3.
• System Activity on KDE 4.
• GNOME System Monitor on GNOME.
• Xfce Task Manager on XFCE.

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