How to Add or Remove Columns for Details in Task Manager in Windows 10


Task Manager can be used to view and manage your processes, performance statistics, app history, users, processes details, and services in Windows 10.

If you like, you can add or remove columns for details in the Processes, App history, Startup, Users, and Details tabs in Task Manager.

Starting with Windows 10 build 17704, Task Manager now includes 2 new columns in the “Processes” tab to show energy impact of the running process on their system. This should help our customers to understand which apps/services are using the maximum power vs. the least power-hungry apps. The metric takes CPU, GPU & Disk into evaluation when calculating power usage.
  • Power usage: This column will provide an instantaneous view of apps/services using power.
  • Power usage trend: This column provides a power usage trend over 2 mins for each running apps/services. This column will be blank when you start an app but will populate based on the power usage every 2 mins.

Starting with Windows 10 build 19541, Microsoft has added an Architecture column in the Details tab in Task Manager to show the architecture (x86 or x64) of each process.

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove columns for details in the tabs of Task Manager for your account in Windows 10.


Contents

  • Option One: To Add or Remove Columns for Details in Processes Tab in Task Manager
  • Option Two: To Add or Remove Columns for Details in App history Tab in Task Manager
  • Option Three: To Add or Remove Columns for Details in Startup Tab in Task Manager
  • Option Four: To Add or Remove Columns for Details in Users Tab in Task Manager
  • Option Five: To Add or Remove Columns for Details in Details Tab in Task Manager






OPTION ONE

To Add or Remove Columns for Details in Processes Tab in Task Manager


1 Open Task Manager in more details view.

2 Click/tap on the Processes tab. (see screenshot below)

3 Right click or press and hold on an existing column detail name (ex: "Network"), and click/tap on the details to check (add) or uncheck (remove) the items you want.

4 Right click or press and hold on an existing column detail name (ex: "Network"), click/tap on Resource values, click/tap on Memory, Disk, or Network, and click/tap on to show in Percents or Values.

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OPTION TWO

To Add or Remove Columns for Details in App history Tab in Task Manager


1 Open Task Manager in more details view.

2 Click/tap on the App history tab. (see screenshot below)

3 Right click or press and hold on an existing column detail name (ex: "Tile updates"), and click/tap on the details to check (add) or uncheck (remove) the items you want.

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OPTION THREE

To Add or Remove Columns for Details in Startup Tab in Task Manager


1 Open Task Manager in more details view.

2 Click/tap on the Startup tab. (see screenshot below)

3 Right click or press and hold on an existing column detail name (ex: "Startup impact"), and click/tap on the details to check (add) or uncheck (remove) the items you want.

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OPTION FOUR

To Add or Remove Columns for Details in Users Tab in Task Manager


1 Open Task Manager in more details view.

2 Click/tap on the Users tab. (see screenshot below)

3 Right click or press and hold on an existing column detail name (ex: "Network"), and click/tap on the details to check (add) or uncheck (remove) the items you want.

4 Right click or press and hold on an existing column detail name (ex: "Network"), click/tap on Resource values, click/tap on Memory, Disk, or Network, and click/tap on to show in Percents or Values.

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OPTION FIVE

To Add or Remove Columns for Details in Details Tab in Task Manager


1 Open Task Manager in more details view.

2 Click/tap on the Details tab. (see screenshots below)

3 To quickly hide a column, right click or press and hold on a column detail name (ex: "Background Moderated") you want to hide, and click/tap on Hide columns.

4 To add or remove columns, right click or press and hold on an existing column detail name (ex: "Background Moderated"), click/tap on Select columns, check (add) or uncheck (remove) the items you want, and click/tap on OK.

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That's it,
Shawn


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