IMAGE: FARKNOT ARCHITECT/SHUTTERSTOCK JANUARY 2022 MACWORLD 73WORKINGMAC
Tips, tricks, and tools to make you and
your Mac or iOS device more productiveS
ometimes your Mac may not run
as smoothly or as quickly as you
expect. The culprit may be a
single application. A lone app can
bump into performance issues, slowing
down not just itself but your entire computer.It may even freeze or become unresponsive
to the point that you can’t close it the usual
way. Whatever the problem, one tool that
can help is Activity Monitor.
Built into macOS, Activity Monitor
shows you a list of all running apps andHow to use Activity Monitor to
handle troublesome apps
Activity Monitor can show you which apps are chewing up the most CPU resources,
memory, disk activity, and network bandwidth.
BY LANCE WHITNEY