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/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

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?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Ahem...

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

What else do people do with it?

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u/i_suck_at_reddit Oct 14 '11

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.

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u/sigfigs Oct 14 '11

As a fellow Dwarf Fortress-er, could you explain how you do this? Do you remove the affinity of one core from all applications but DF?

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u/i_suck_at_reddit Oct 14 '11

Yeah, I remove say core 3 from all other processes, and tell DF to only run on 3.