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220-1102 · Question #33

A user reports that the hard drive activity light on a Windows 10 desktop computer has been steadily lit for more than an hour, and performance is severely degraded. Which of the following tabs in…

The correct answer is B. Processes. This Processes tab displays a list of all running processes on the computer, along with information such as their CPU and memory usage. A technician could use this information to identify which process or processes are causing the high disk activity and performance degradation…

Software Troubleshooting

Question

A user reports that the hard drive activity light on a Windows 10 desktop computer has been steadily lit for more than an hour, and performance is severely degraded. Which of the following tabs in Task Manager would contain the information a technician would use to identify the cause of this issue?

Options

  • AServices
  • BProcesses
  • CPerformance
  • DStartup

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    76% (25)
  • C
    15% (5)
  • D
    6% (2)

Explanation

This Processes tab displays a list of all running processes on the computer, along with information such as their CPU and memory usage. A technician could use this information to identify which process or processes are causing the high disk activity and performance degradation. Additionally, technicians can use the "Performance" tab to get real-time data on disk, memory and CPU usage, this will give them an idea about the resource consumption. Finally, "Startup" tab also can be useful to check which apps are starting automatically and taking

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#Task Manager#Performance Troubleshooting#Disk Utilization#Windows 10

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