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Place the Task Manager in the System Tray on startup

Occasionally, you may want to see how the CPU is performing on your system with just a glance. A simple way to add that functionality is to add the Task Manager to your System Tray. First, you need to place a shortcut to the Taskmgr.exe file in your Startup folder. Then edit the shortcut Properties so that it is set up to run minimized. Now, whenever you log on, the Task Manager will be waiting in the System Tray. (Note that the Task Manager does use some system resources itself.)