It’ll scan for viruses, clean junk files, clear memory and more. If you’re looking at Activity Monitor because your Mac is behaving strangely or running slowly, you can use MacKeeper to find out what’s wrong. In this guide, we’ll show you how to open Activity Monitor, before looking at some of the ways you can use it:
Many of these processes will be part of macOS itself, but you’ll also find background processes for your other Mac apps, including for your web browser, your antivirus and things like VPN clients. This includes apps that you can open and quit as normal, but it also includes background processes, which you don’t normally see. Like the Task Manager in Windows, Activity Monitor lets you see everything that’s running on your Mac. Every copy of macOS has the Activity Monitor app installed in it.
