Taking a look carefully, you can determine whether your Mac is stressed out or running at an optimal level.

Resource Usage Statistics: When you open the Mac Task Manager (Activity Monitor app), usage stats of your CPU, System Memory, Disk Activity, Disk Usage and Network usage should be located in the bottom side of the dialogue box.

A new dialogue box should appear asking you whether you are sure, click on ‘Quit’. In Activity Monitor (Task Manager for Mac), find a process that’s unresponsive or you can’t close that normally for some reason and click on ‘Quit Process’.

Kill a Process: The most common use of Task Manager in Windows is to kill an ongoing process, most of the times when the program gives up to work.

Activity Monitor should be listed in the Activity Monitor windows, click on that. Press Command + Spacebar and type Activity Monitor in the Spotlight window. However, like the Ctrl+Alt+Del shortcut to launch Windows Task Manager, the Mac Activity Monitor has a keyboard shortcut as well, not exactly a three button combo though.

Launching the Activity Monitor: To launch the Activity Monitor program in Mac, user needs to go to Applications -> Utilities -> Activity Monitor.

Following are some specific sections you may want to know: The name may be different but as we have mentioned before, both Task Manager and Activity Monitor does the same job.

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