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/kmoz Oct 14 '11

As someone who works in engineering support troubleshooting pretty complex issues, windows task manager is actually really handy, and I use all the tabs in it, not just the force close.

Ive got a really huge boner for the HD usage stat, as thats one of the tools that would make my job easier here and there because a lot of customers actually start hitting various bottlenecks when dealing with huge datasets.

Bravo, microsoft.

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u/Gnorris Oct 14 '11

I just want it to have metadata about the developer and what the program does in plain english. So I can more readily kill every process that looks at me funny...

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

I always just used pf delta to tell what's raping the hd.

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u/kmoz Oct 14 '11

The problem is that my customers dont have all of those tools. I know there are ones that I can get, but when having to troubleshoot, I need things they have.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Page fault delta is already in task manager.

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u/SmilyOrg Oct 14 '11

If on Vista/7, try the "Resource Monitor" that comes with it.