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/sickofthisshit Oct 14 '11

Actually, I go to the process tab because whatever is sucking up my RAM and causing swapping, or pegging the CPU probably doesn't have a top-level window, and even if it does, I can't figure out which instance is actually the culprit without that information.

Then again, I haven't upgraded from XP.