Yes, it can.
view what applications are running
A great way to gell when a user closes a window so you can perform a cleanup is by utilizing task manager. Task manager will display all programs that are still running in the background.
This depends on what desktop environment is running. The Unity desktop uses the Compiz window manager. Unity 2D uses Metacity.
All active programs (except those that run as a background process) are highlighted in the Dock. Pressing the Command (cmd) and Tab keys will show the application switcher with all the active applications. In the Utilities folder (within the Applications folder) the Activity Monitor can be found. This will detail all running processes. To see all of the "applications" running, you can press ctrl-command-esc to pull up the force quit dialogue. There you can see all of the applications that are running. If you want to see all of the individual background processes, etc. Open a terminal window (in Applications -> Utilities) and type PS and press enter. There are some more options to see different information about the processes running. Typing man PS in the terminal window should give you some more options to use with the PS utility.
The task manager is used for looking at your computers performance along with program that are running in the background. You can open this by going to Ctrl + Alt + Del and hitting "Task Manager".
Yes, any programs you see on your taskbar are running. If you have them "open" then that would make them active, if they are minimized they are still running, but only in the background. To see a list of all running programs (active and inactive), press "CTRL + ALT + DEL" to view a task manager. From that window you can end any processes you don't want running.
Besides the classic CTRL+ALT+DEL or MSConfig, the utility that shows ALL running processes is called Autoruns and it's created by Sysinternals according to the CompTIA+ Software book by Jean Andrews.
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Ultrix Window Manager was created in 1985.
The Batch Report ID is not on the Batch Manager Window.
Win2000 is based soley on NT technology. This eliminated the need to have DOS running in the background.
Cwm - window manager - was created on 2004-07-10.