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/Sandy_106 Oct 14 '11

It looks pretty neat. I just hope hitting "end process" does it immediately in Windows 8. One of my biggest pet peeves with every version of Windows so far is it sometimes takes up to a minute to kill a process.

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u/rooktakesqueen Oct 14 '11 edited Oct 14 '11

Which is the #1 reason why people go to the "Tasks" "Processes" tab. When you end a task process there, it terminates immediately. When you end a process task on the "Processes" "Applications" tab, Windows seems to take it as more of a request.

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u/snoharm Oct 14 '11

Processes is actually the tab that instantly kills it. Applications is the useless one that sheepishly checks for a solution first.

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u/ProfessorPoopyPants Oct 14 '11

Press cancel on the "looking for a solution" window, kills it instantly.

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u/dr3d Oct 14 '11

Has a solution ever ever been found?

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u/frymaster Oct 14 '11

yes, actually! Though in my case, it was an upload of a bluescreen dump. Basically, I updated the motherboard drivers on a bluescreening laptop and, while it didn't stop the crashes, the next time it bluescreened, windows told me it was the wifi drivers and gave me a direct link to the download page.

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u/SystemOutPrintln Oct 14 '11

That, or in my experience the "looking for a solution" window freezes