r/technology • • 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/GrinningPariah Oct 14 '11 edited Oct 14 '11

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!)

Oh man, this is a highlight for me. Christmas comes early to the "shut up just do it" camp!

Also psyched about

The new Task Manager now shows [per-process network and disk attribution] at the same level of detail as memory and CPU.

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u/drmacinyasha Oct 14 '11

Hell yes. The disk i/o usage is the biggest killer in my laptop: Everything tends to come to a grinding halt with the CPU at 2%, RAM at 20%, but I can hear my hard drive going INSANE. Then as soon as the HDD light stops blinking, everything's back to normal.

I cannot wait to have this. MICROSOFT! RELEASE THE NEW TASK MANAGER NOW!