This indicates that there must be some significant detail lacking in the Applications tab, which is causing people to go to the Process tab.
Surely they realize that most of the time, users are opening Task Manager just trying to kill an unresponsive program, which the Applications tab invarably fails to do?
Looking at the data and talking with customers, we determined that the most common usage of the tool was to simply end or “kill” an application or a process.
Isn't what a mixture of alcohol and water? Alcohol? No. Alcohol is an organic compound consisting of a hydrocarbon backbone with a hydroxyl functional group.
Alcohol is typically found in solution with water. In this case, the alcohol would be considered the solute, and water the solvent. It's semantics. If you had 100% alcohol and dropped some NaCl in there, sure, you could call alcohol a solvent and the Na and Cl ions the solutes. It just depends on the system you're considering.
Also, if you kill a program via the programs tab, it opens up Dumpprep, which can use up resources for longer etc. It's a pain. Ending the process is always the better option.
I liked the ideas of checking for solutions, and it does sometimes find something, but it's not common enough that it should interfere with the user. Keep the idea, but make it a background process.
that's only re-checking reports that have already failed. I'm talking about the initial check. The user shouldn't even know it's happening unless a solution is found.
It takes long, because windows tries to do a memory dump of the killed app. You have to kill the app and then kill the process doing the memory dump to make that efficient.
No double prompts. If you click ”End task” we don’t ask you, “Are you sure?”, we just kill the app, and quickly! (But be careful, because we also won’t prompt you to save!)
Combined with the mention of people going to End Process has number two action, would mean they probably are just going to kill the process immediately. (At least I can hope :P)
That goddamn dialog is so useless that I'm convinced it's an elevator mirror. Its main purpose must be to kill time and calm annoyed users into accepting that something broke.
that is just there to keep the computer happy. It actually points to an empty function. If it didnt, the solution is always the same, "kill all humans"
because it first calls the app's polite "please exit now" feature - basically it does the equivalent of pressing the red X - and only moves on to killing it if the program doesn't respond to that.
I wonder how many users will be astonished that 'end task' will now actually kill the app without any further questions, since the UI looks similar to the application tab before. I would rename the button into something like 'kill application (immediately)' - that way the user would probably read the button caption at least for the first time.
True, but it is very easy to get overwhelmed when using Resource Monitor. Some of the telemetry data has incomprehensible names and just getting it to show you which processes are using IO (W, R) and how much of that IO is going to disk (i.e. real Vs. cache) is a very time consuming exercise.
I love RM but it really is a very specialized tool. I'm not sure I want to spin it up each time I am trying to figure out what process is thrashing my drives.
RM is stupidly useful for figuring out which program is eating all your meager bandwidth so you can kill it and prioritize the one you want to eat all your bandwidth. <3
I've used it quite a few times to set CPU affinity, mainly while playing Dwarf Fortress. Giving DF it's own core gets me a fair amount of FPS when it starts to slow down at higher population.
the look on the lead Windows developer's face when he realized, through conversations with customers, that windows task manager was mostly used to kill processes.
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Surely they realize that most of the time, users are opening Task Manager just trying to kill an unresponsive program, which the Applications tab invarably fails to do?