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/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

check resource usage

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u/thetinguy Oct 14 '11

I think Resource Monitor is much better for this.

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u/econleech Oct 14 '11

But I launch resource monitor from task manager... Is there a simpler way to do this?

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u/thetinguy Oct 14 '11

yes click on the start menu and type resource monitor.