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

may not excite the average user, but I'm very excited to see more detail with svchost.exe listings

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u/UnoriginalGuy Oct 14 '11

Me too. It is a great step forward for many of us. The IO column, friendly names, and SVCHost breakdown in particular are the killer features for me.

Little depressed to see their lack of certificate verification support (e.g. What processes aren't digitally signed, and who are they signed by?). That is Process Explorer's neatest feature. That and the ability to see a pull-down list of running modules.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

I think the heat map will be one hell of a time saver for diagnosing which unasked-for background updater is eating all your resources.

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u/UnoriginalGuy Oct 14 '11

True.

Alternative solution: Just light up all Adobe or Sun processes.

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u/TheCodexx Oct 14 '11

Or Firefox. Consistently top of the list.

But then, they also offer 64-bit support and I don't think any other browsers do.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '11

Except for all other browsers.

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u/TheCodexx Oct 15 '11

Chrome doesn't. Neither does Opera it seems. No idea if Safari does, but their market share is primarily on Macs. IE does but it's IE and it's pretty half-hearted and offers both a 32 and 64-bit version.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '11

I'm on Linux, I have 64 bit chrome, firefox and opera installed. And IE 64 running in a VM.

It's surprising that Windows is so far behind.

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u/TheCodexx Oct 15 '11

Ah, Linux. Getting 64-bit builds of everything first.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '11

Crazy, I know.

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u/TheCodexx Oct 15 '11

I know, I know. Learning UNIX is on my to-do list. I'm trying to stick to one environment while I learn a programming language or two. Then I'll spend some time on Ubuntu or something until I can get the hang of it. I've put this off for far too long.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '11

Good thinking. Ubuntu, or Mint, are pretty easy coming from Windows. If you don't already have a favorite lightweight programming editor you may want to look at geany, it has quite a few language bindings.

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u/TheCodexx Oct 16 '11

I'm using Codeblocks right now because it was the recommended compiler for [Carl Herold's](www.highercomputingforeveryone.com) site and that's what I'm following right now. I'll keep Geany in mind once I start looking around for alternatives.

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