Activity Monitor is the best way to keep an eye on your MacOS apps, how they're performing, and how to manage app problems: Here's how to use it on your Mac!

How-To How to use Activity Monitor to handle troublesome apps on your Mac Activity Monitor can show you which apps are chewing up the most CPU resources, memory, disk activity, and network bandwidth.

Activity Monitor for Mac Activity Monitor is a little know gem of an app hidden in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. It can look daunting when you first launch it but once you look ...

Launch the Activity Monitor on your Mac. You can find it in the /Applications/Utilities folder. Under the Process Name list, select the app or process you want to quit.

Simply launch Activity Monitor, and you'll see the usual list of processes and what percentage of CPU cycles, RAM, energy use, disk input and output, and network traffic each process is using (the ...

Sometimes, your Mac slows down for mysterious reasons. Activity Monitor can help you identify misbehaving apps, and shut them down if necessary, to speed things up again, as staff writer Lex ...