Are there things you should not do while Task Manager is open?

Is there anything you should not do on your computer in Windows 7 while Task Manager is open?

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As far as I know.. no, it's just like having calculator or notepad open. Task manager won't interrupt or affect anything, unless you tell it to. You can leave it open and running in the background and do all sorts of stuff, I kept mine open while playing a game that would crash but not close - to use it to close the game when it crashed.

It's just a monitoring program with some capabilities to affect running processes (only when you explicitly tell it to), but otherwise it's just yet another program. Leaving it open all the day long hurts in exactly nothing and it won't affect anything.

I personally close it after using it if I need to, out of compulsively wanting a clean task bar, but there is no technical reason to do so really.

Thank you all for taking time to make replies. Can you even have Task Manager open while installing a new program? If not, what about while installing updates for an installed program? I guess a lot of that, updates installing, may be happening when I don't even know it anyway. I don't mean to be tedious, or whatever. I would just like to make sure about this part of things. Thanks again. I appreciate it.

I understand. Thank you again for helping me.

To complement the previous answer, I would add that "installing" or even "updating" isn't a special privileged procedure or something to be held in a throne. All that an installer do is to copy files to a designed location, maybe add some registry entries and place an initial configuration, that's all. It's no different from running notepad in most senses.
It's the very same thing when updating something.

Efdy said:

I guess a lot of that, updates installing, may be happening when I don't even know it anyway.

If that happens in a computer of yours, you have a very serious security problem in your hands. Never let unwanted things happen in your system, and make sure you can track everything you automated.

Alejandro85 said:

To complement the previous answer, I would add that "installing" or even "updating" isn't a special privileged procedure or something to be held in a throne. All that an installer do is to copy files to a designed location, maybe add some registry entries and place an initial configuration, that's all. It's no different from running notepad in most senses.
It's the very same thing when updating something.

Okay. Thank you for this further explanation.

Alejandro85 said:

Efdy said:

I guess a lot of that, updates installing, may be happening when I don't even know it anyway.

If that happens in a computer of yours, you have a very serious security problem in your hands. Never let unwanted things happen in your system, and make sure you can track everything you automated.

I think it is only Firefox, Malwarebytes, and Bitdefender that update stuff automatically, but they do it a lot, and I don't really know when it is happening most of the time. I shouldn't let that happen then?