ZDNET's key takeaways A new Windows 11 bug causes Task Manager to keep duplicating.Each time you close and reopen the tool, another instance launches.To avoid this, you'll have to close Task Manager ...

The company says it is still investigating the issue and has not yet released a fix.

To improve performance on Windows 11, you can safely end processes like unused apps, bloatware (e.g., Copilot, Phone Link), high-resource processes, and peripheral-related programs via Task Manager.

When a Windows 11 application hangs, the normal recourse is to open up the Task Manager, dig through the list of running processes, and use the End Task option in that utility. But there's another way ...