You can easily keep tabs on what's running on your Mac and get things running smoothly by using Apple's Activity Monitor. Here's how to get started.

Activity Monitor can help you analyze your computer usage and fix problems. Make a habit out of starting it up whenever you see the Spinning Beach-ball or when your computer feels slower than usual.

OS X comes with a built-in application called Activity Monitor, which gives you a general overview of what your MacBook is doing. Running the Activity Monitor app is useful if you want to see how ...

Activity Monitor has four different icons that graphically display the activity on your Mac.

Once the activity monitor is open, closing an app is pretty simple. Activity Manager offers more detail and the option to Force Quit background apps.

Administrator accounts provide the capability to monitor the activity of any managed account created on your iMac. For the best security, you can use an administrator account to change important ...