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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Somebody needs to find whoever was responsible for the original NT task manager and learn a thing or two. That thing was bulletproof. I had servers over the years that were so broken nothing else would run but you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and tada!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

David Plummer, he has a YouTube channel "Dave's garage" he has a couple of videos dedicated to Taskmanager and even a look at the source for his first version. That and other cool stuff on windows and other tech.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I love his channel. Very informative and entertaining.

[–] PlutoParty 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of his videos about task manager is one of those YouTube videos that just won't go away from being suggested for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, me to, so I decided to finally watch it and decided his channel is pretty interesting. Sure he's pretty 'microsofty' (i.e. not seeing any faults in the company) but other than that he presents his topics well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

TIL... Thanks for the tip. I'm going to search some of that stuff out.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/Ve95Nh690l0

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

for the love of god, for the past 27 years it's been ctrl-shift-esc (since like NT 4.0), while ctrl-alt-del opens up the security menu thing. I can't believe I'm saying this..

i thought programmers liked doing things faster

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Install Linux

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Steps to fix:

  • Shut down your pc.
  • Install a proper OS, i.e. a linux distribution.
  • Be happy.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, then you'll have 1000 other problems but not one with task manager. The best task manager in Linux is still htop because Linux doesn't like making GUIs that are reliable and functional. Last time I was using fedora, the mouse settings GUI wouldn't work and I had to set mouse speed in my bashrc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real talk though, how long ago was that? Linux has been making improvements at a blistering pace. If it's been a while, I'd recommend giving it another try soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

in 2021. In 2022 I tried again with Fedora and KDE but I have an Nvidia GPU and this was around the time they just switched the default to Wayland which resulted in the liveCD hanging forever. Didn't even get to install it again. I used to use Linux as a desktop from 2008 to 2014 but stopped because things just kept breaking on me and it was wasting my time. Eventually, my work switched to Windows, I switched to working at home and it didn't make sense to maintain a Linux desktop that every time I booted it up, something new was broken. I've been checking every year into Linux since.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does linux have guis at all? I mean it's just a kernel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Linux is also a collection of distros. We don't call them GNU/Linux distros (because they don't have to be using GNU. Linux is just the broader term for the community and the distros the community uses. My point, clearly, is that the GUIs that are provided on the distros or in the repos, or by the community all are terrible. If you want to be pedantic further feel free but I'm not going to engage in a semantic war.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

You can only install Linux at that point

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a reason why the task manager was largely unchanged until windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno, the Win10 version seems pretty neutered compared to previous versions.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open up task manager manager

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Wait, that's illegal

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Install Task Manager Manager

[–] odium 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have no tasks, there's nothing to manage. I'd say you're done for the day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Run new task? More like run away.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the point of even "modernising" task manager?

Normies that would care about task manager being too ugly probably don't know it even exists.

There goes the last dependable program that Windows had to offer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It happened a while ago too. Like windows 8 I think. Old task manager popped up no matter how laggy your computer was. It has some sort of highest priority and didn't depend on much. Making it reliable. Since 8, this changed. Any changes since have been add-ons and reskins. I like how it shows things like gpu now but at what cost.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same feeling of an extinguisher catching fire

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@dave

nothing to do here but go complain to the original developer

https://twitter.com/davepl1968

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

wait a little bit, electron is still loading...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Where is your god now?

[–] durtuha 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Okay, I don't think Gentoo is the best OS for beginners

But

I think people new to computers (yes, I mean kids) should be handed a computer booted off a gentoo image with the handbook and wiki.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Start > Run > taskkill /F /IM:taskmgr.exe

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Power supply.... You're next option is to remove the power supply from the computer.... With a chainsaw.

I may be taking slightly drastic action.

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[–] kogasa 5 points 1 year ago

There is a developer setting that enables "kill task" in the task bar right-click menu. I recommend enabling it. I believe this is new since I just found out about it. It may only be in Windows Insider Dev Channel and/or Windows 11 Enterprise version, I'm not sure.

[–] Mikina 4 points 1 year ago

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Time for good ol' Ctrl-Alt-Del...

Er... I mean, time to hit the good ol' reboot button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It took me some time to realize this was windows 11

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

🤣 this makes me laugh. Who watches the Watchmen?

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