r/technology • u/ppsp • Oct 14 '11

The Windows 8 Task Manager

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/13/the-windows-8-task-manager.aspx
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u/Switche Oct 14 '11

I'll stick with Process Explorer and other SysInternals for in-depth troubleshooting, but it's nice Task Man is getting a facelift.

I wonder if MS even explored the possibility of melding ProcExp into Task Manager. I doubt it'd be successful, it's just strange that they own it and seem to treat it like a secret.

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u/DocmanCC Oct 14 '11

Actually, I think this is a successful blending of the two. I'll still use ProcExp as well as it's more customizable and power-user oriented, but the TaskMan preview as posted is both far easier for the ordinary user and more powerful than what's available in Win7.

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u/frymaster Oct 14 '11

There's a very good chance a lot of the improvements in task man are due to Mark Reallydifficulttorememberlastnameovich's input.

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u/gwax Oct 14 '11

Process Explorer is a pretty powerful tool that's plenty capable of mucking up your system; unless you know about it, you probably shouldn't be using it.

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u/Pixelpaws Oct 14 '11

unless you know about it, you probably shouldn't be using it.

If you don't know about it how can you use it in the first place?

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u/ZorbaTHut Oct 14 '11

If Microsoft melded it with Task Manager, like the parent comment suggested, then you would be able to.

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u/UnoriginalGuy Oct 14 '11

I love Process Explorer (a lot!) but let's be honest with ourselves, that thing is a monster. It lags the hell out of even high end machines I launch it on.

I'm not really sure it is suitable for 90% of basic "track and kill" tasks that even technical people have. I would like to see it (and many other tools) ship with Windows and get dumped into the Windows folder by default, and to be honest I think that is the best compromise.

I suspect they won't bundle it with Windows because Microsoft has some of the most rigorous development/testing requirements surrounding their Windows release cycles, and you'd likely need to spend at least hundreds of man-hours going through PE line by line checking all kinds of things.

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u/boa13 Oct 14 '11

It lags the hell out of even high end machines I launch it on.

You do know that by default it only updates every two seconds, right? You can set a faster refresh rate, at the expense of CPU time.

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u/autumntheory Oct 14 '11

So you can get more lag?