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(If you want to know more, we have anin-depth explainer on Task Manager).

Those are the Processes and Performance tabs (and also Users panel), which can display different readouts.

Windows 11 update with Task Manager menu

In fact, this isnt an error, but rather its a problem with consistency.

The Processes tab uses a slightly different way of calculating the CPU percentage, which has now been changed.

With this being implemented youll see the same percentage throughout Task Manager, whichever metric youre looking at.

A screenshot featuring the older design of Task Manager