Note some viruses monitor for task manager and will kill themselves if it is opened, then retrigger once it is closed. So if this is happening a lot then may want to look into that
Can I just leave it open?
I'm pretty sure Cortana did that. And that LLM shit that took its place now does the same.
Those sure do sound like viruses.
My work laptop has been xibiting thus behaviour. I'm trying to decide ic it's a virus or incompetent it
Either way I don't have admin and can't influence the fix
What if task manager also freezes?
You were the chosen one; you were supposed to defeat the Sith, not join them!
Two weeks in switching from Windows to Linux and I never once needed to use the equivalent of Task Manager.
It may well have been beginner's optimism, but still, it did feel strange, so strange indeed that I started wondering whether Linux Mint even had one and I got promptly reassured in my perception by the fact that instead of being named Task Manager (you act with it), it is named System Monitor (you observe with it).
Process Monitor is a thing.
I keep process explorer open to monitor ram, GPU and CPU usage all the time
