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Task Manager not showing all processes

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From Leo's mailbag:

> From: A Computer User
> Sent: February 17, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: Task Manager not showing all processes
>
> Leo,
> --------------
> Part of my task manager on Windows xp has disappeared. It
> only shows the programs that are actually running, but not
> all the programs in memory.
>
> How do I get it back? I'm not sure what i did. The same thing
> happened to me in Windows 2000. Things finally changed when I
> finally upgraded, to XP. However, now it's gone again. I
> couldn't find it in the answers

One of of the tabs of task manager there's a check box that
says "show processes from all users". Is that checked?


Thanks for asking,

Leo

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