Windows 10: Clear Task manager

My task manager is taking up 75%+ memory. Which apps are absolutely essential? Which ones can I delete?

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No restart button in task manager

another easy way to kill tasks, download and install Winaero Tweaker(free) and theres a setting to add a Kill non responding tasks using the desktop right click menu. When you place your cursor on the desktop anywhere and right click the option is at the top of the list, Very handy and you dont have to go through all those steps and well Winaero Tweaker has alot of cool Windows tweaks. Just posting a different suggestion, Im sure your ok with what was suggested here.

 

Clear Pagefile on Shutdown


I've been looking into clearing the pagefile, and I found the following steps at a somewhat dated webpage:

1. In the registry editor, navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
2. Set ClearPageFileAtShutdown to the REG_DWORD value of 1.
3. Restart Windows.

I'm just wondering whether those steps are still valid, and, if so, does clearing the pagefile work as advertised?

 

How to clear the list of applications from the applications history in the task manager?

The tasks manager offers an interesting tab called "applications history" ("historique des applications" showing the resources used by the applications.

To get rid of old history, there is the possibility to "delete usage history" ("Supprimer l'historique d'utilisation").

Unfortunately, this function only resets the counters.

It does not clear the list of applications so that old, unused, uninstalled applications still appear in the list.

Is there any way to get rid of them and completely clear the usage list?