Funny thing, that is exactly what it does when task manager is paused. You can go to a view menu then update speed then pause. Anyway I used a restore point because those have been amazing it seems fine.
Task Manager Performance Tab Stopped Working
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There is something wrong with my task manager. All of the graphs on the performance tab are froze. The output refreshes by switching to a different component but each graph is frozen. The resource monitor seems functional though.
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2013-03-23T12:28:23+00:00 Funny thing, that is exactly what it does when task manager is paused. You can go to a view menu then update speed then pause. Anyway I used a restore point because those have been amazing it seems fine.
I had this issue happening on 2 of my Windows 8 machines at home about the same time. It turns out both of them had the update speed set to Paused even though I had never set it. Something patch wise must have caused it to flip over.
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Anonymous
2013-12-24T03:19:38+00:00 I have found that my task manager has been paused after I run a full scan with Norton Anti-virus. At times the task manager takes up a sizable chunk of CPU time and disk usage. Norton may be switching it to pause because it is interfering with the full scan process -- and then not changing it back.
Don't really know. May just be a coincidence. Micro operating systems are getting as complicated as mainframes/networks. A lot of it is getting way over my head -- and don't have the time to self-educate. Thank goodness for these tech blog communities.
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Anonymous
2013-03-12T02:08:02+00:00 As a matter of fact nothing is changing realtime on my task manager. Yah I am very familiar with system file check and disk check.
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Anonymous
2013-03-12T01:51:31+00:00 Look in Event Viewer for errors ?
You might want to try running Check Disk and System File Checker ... from a Command Prompt (admin)
ChkDsk /F
SFC /ScanNow