Some Task Manager lore: I’m the Microsoft (Redmond, ’93) developer that wrote TaskMgr at home in my den in about 1994 and then the NT silverback devs let me check it into the main tree even though I was a greenhorn at the time. So that meant I got to bring it into work and polish it up and make it an official part of Windows, where it remains to this day. So I got to define my own day job, actually, which was nice! I don’t know if it’s still like that, but great culture and people.
This is all based on XP, as I left long ago, but it’s still the same core app underneath.
What follows is an incredibly useful list of hidden features of the Windows Task Manager.
Unfortunately I didn’t learn anything new. It seems like half the tips were “you know you can bring up task manager with ctl-shift-esc right?”
Me neither, I’ve always started Task Manager via ctrl + shift + esc – I assumed that’s how everyone does it, no?! (or +break if using Terminal Services).
I, and most people I know, right click on the taskbar and select it from the context menu. Not all of us are glued to the keyboard at all the time, need to access it often enough to remember a shortcut, or like to contort our left hand that way 😉
I guess you must be using one of those newfangled mouse thingies!
I know, and I am a professional engineer too. I bury my head in shame…
Nice linkage. I see some people are so gung-ho “old reddit for life” that you have to link old.reddit.com so to not contaminate the unsuspecting readers.
I liked the article, there were some things I didn’t know about the different launch methods and what resources are or are not needed.
I thought the point of the article was to give people potential solutions for when one of those newfangled mouse thingies turns up it’s toes!
I just love stuff like that, The Script Guy, The Old New Thing, etc., etc.. It reminds me there is always another way, and no matter how smart some colleague seems they do not know everything. I’d happily welcome more content like that ahead of a political rant!
cpcf,
That’s a tall order these days, haha.