General Add or Remove Columns in Task Manager in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove columns for details in Task Manager for your account in Windows 11.

Task Manager can be used to view and manage your processes, performance statistics, app history, startup apps, users, process details, and services in Windows 11.

Starting with Windows 11 build 22557, Microsoft has updated the design of Task Manager to match the new Windows 11 design principles. This includes a new hamburger style navigation bar and a new settings page. A new command bar on each page gives access to common actions. The dark theme has now been brought to Task manager and will automatically match the system-wide theme configured in the Settings app.

Starting with Windows 11 build 2610.5074 (24H2), Task Manager now uses standard metrics to show CPU workload consistently across all pages, aligning with industry standards and third-party tools. If you prefer the previous view, you can enable a new optional column called CPU Utility in the Details tab to display the earlier CPU usage value shown on the Processes page.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26100.8524 (24H2) and build 26200.8524 (25H2), Microsoft is updating Task Manager to provide better insight into NPU usage for PCs that include an NPU. New optional NPU and NPU Engine columns are now available on the Processes, Users, and Details pages. The Details page also adds NPU Dedicated Memory and NPU Shared Memory optional columns to give you deeper visibility into how workloads are using NPU resources. Additionally, if there are neural engines that are part of a GPU, they will now appear on the Performance page, providing a more complete view of AI‑related system activity. Microsoft is also adding a new optional Isolation column to the Processes and Details pages, allowing you to see which apps are running in an AppContainer. Once these changes are available to you, you can add any of the new columns.

You can add or remove columns for details in the Processes, App history, Startup apps, Users, and Details pages in Task Manager.

You can drag and drop columns to any order you want in Task Manager.








1 Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc).

2 Click/tap on Processes in the left pane of Task Manager to open that page. (see screenshot below)

3 Right click on any column title name (ex: "Power usage trend").

4 Check (add) or uncheck (remove) details you want for columns.

5 If wanted, you can drag and drop column names to the order you want them in.







1 Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc).

2 Click/tap on App history in the left pane of Task Manager to open that page. (see screenshot below)

3 Right click on any column title name (ex: "Notifications").

4 Check (add) or uncheck (remove) details you want for columns.

5 If wanted, you can drag and drop column names to the order you want them in.







1 Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc).

2 Click/tap on Startup apps in the left pane of Task Manager to open that page. (see screenshot below)

3 Right click on any column title name (ex: "Startup impact").

4 Check (add) or uncheck (remove) details you want for columns.

5 If wanted, you can drag and drop column names to the order you want them in.







1 Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc).

2 Click/tap on Users in the left pane of Task Manager to open that page. (see screenshot below)

3 Right click on any column title name (ex: "GPU engine").

4 Check (add) or uncheck (remove) details you want for columns.

5 If wanted, you can drag and drop column names to the order you want them in.







1 Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc).

2 Click/tap on Details in the left pane of Task Manager to open that page. (see screenshots below)

3 To quickly remove a column: (see screenshot below)

1. Right click on a column (ex: "Description") you want to remove.
2. Click/tap on Hide column.

4 To add and remove columns: (see screenshots below)

1. Right click on any column title name (ex: "Description").
2. Click/tap on Select columns.
3. Check (add) or uncheck (remove) columns you want.
4. Click/tap on OK.

5 If wanted, you can drag and drop column names to the order you want them in.



That's it,
Shawn Brink