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!
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.
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.
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..
CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is simply a keyboard shortcut and is useless on a locked up system, it dies with the shell. CTRL+ALT+DEL throws a hardware interrupt, which contributed to the aforementioned bulletproof nature.
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.
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!
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.
I love his channel. Very informative and entertaining.
One of his videos about task manager is one of those YouTube videos that just won't go away from being suggested for me.
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.
TIL... Thanks for the tip. I'm going to search some of that stuff out.
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
CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is simply a keyboard shortcut and is useless on a locked up system, it dies with the shell. CTRL+ALT+DEL throws a hardware interrupt, which contributed to the aforementioned bulletproof nature.
Install Linux
You can only install Linux at that point
Steps to fix:
There is a reason why the task manager was largely unchanged until windows 11.
I dunno, the Win10 version seems pretty neutered compared to previous versions.
How so?
Install Task Manager Manager
Open up task manager manager
Wait, that's illegal
You have no tasks, there's nothing to manage. I'd say you're done for the day.
Run new task? More like run away.
htop
top
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/dev/null
btop
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
Where is your god now?
@dave
nothing to do here but go complain to the original developer
https://twitter.com/davepl1968
oh hey look, another dave!
now install gentoo
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.
Same feeling of an extinguisher catching fire
wait a little bit, electron is still loading...
Start > Run > taskkill /F /IM:taskmgr.exe
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.
Nah, mate. That won't do it. You need to drive a truck into the nearest transformer station.
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.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
It took me some time to realize this was windows 11
Time for good ol' Ctrl-Alt-Del...
Er... I mean, time to hit the good ol' reboot button.
🤣 this makes me laugh. Who watches the Watchmen?
Had this myself recently, process explorer still works though. tskill taskmgr.exe would probably work too.
I don’t see the problem, you have such a powerful computer that there’s no process it cannot complete instantly. /s
Use the Windows 7 task manager at win7games.com. (ignore the name, I am NOT Winaero)
Alt-f4
Third party tools. Like always.
Do you have any examples or recommendations of said third party tools you prefer?
Process Hacker. You can set it as default in the settings.