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.

Activity Monitor can show you which apps are chewing up the most CPU resources, memory, disk activity, and network bandwidth.

How to change the Activity Monitor app icon to a monitor The Activity Monitor app has to be open, and it must stay open in order to report any activity.

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.

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 for Mac Activity Monitor is a little know gem of an app hidden in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. It can look daunting when you first launch it but once you look ...

How to check your CPU usage on a Mac Using the Activity Monitor app Open the "Activity Monitor" application.

The Activity Monitor app in OS X Mavericks lets you view important information about your Mac, including a list of apps that are draining valuable energy from your notebook's battery. You can open ...