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I've used that app for 20+ years. And cursed the moving around apps all that time. Turns out there is a single keyboard click trick to avoid it (press CTRL, tha
by isaacfrond 3y ago
I've used that app for 20+ years. And cursed the moving around apps all that time. Turns out there is a single keyboard click trick to avoid it (press CTRL, that is). I feel a bit stupid now.
- mynegation 3y agoI haven’t used windows in a while, I believe I just sorted by the name column to put everything in a fixed place.
- Novosell 3y agoYeah, I did precisely the same thing. I'm floored that people have suffered from this "issue" to be honest.
- sphars 3y agoIf you're looking for a specific program/app, then this is the way. But what the article is talking about is when sorting by the CPU column (for a high usage app), as everything jumps around quite a bit.
- mynegation 3y agoYes. I would select the like using my fast clicking skills, sort, and then find the selection. Ctrl trick is much nicer had it worked in all Windows versions and had I known about it.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoSorting by mem usage will show the big apps which 99% of the time will also be the ones using cpu time. Still, this trick is neat.
- akira2501 3y agoThe real problem is "instantaneous CPU usage" is pretty useless to users. It'd be like trying to judge the speed of my car solely by gear ratio and engine RPM. Perhaps some gauge to show me the actual derivative value would be smarter.
- TheSpiceIsLife 3y agoIf you know the gear ratio (ok, and diff ratio, and wheel circumference) and engine RPM, you can derive the speed with high confidence. Perhaps what you meant was solely by the engine RPM.
- gnatman 3y agoIf I'm exiting the highway into a 35-mph zone, I don't want to derive my speed with high confidence from 4 other numbers, I want to see that pertinent number directly.
- akira2501 3y agoThe other point would be is that derivatives can provide low pass filtering. The "high frequency" components of "CPU usage" are not useful to me.
- toast0 3y agoMy pattern was sort by whatever usage to identify the app I want to interact with; if it's constantly at the top, easy peasy; if not, I can now sort by name, because I'm looking for a specific program.
- fortyseven 3y agoIt's not intuitive. Not your fault. No reason to have guessed that.
- kodra 3y agoWhy do you feel stupid? There is absolutely zero discoverability. But you should've probably discovered View -> Update Speed :)
- ourmandave 3y agoMaybe it will be a question on your next DevOps job interview.
- karakot 3y agoyes, a good example for a bad question.
- seanp2k2 3y ago“Do you recall __X obscure fact__” just like too much of standardized testing. Edit: another example would be something like judging someone on if they remember the option name in an API call for a specific library. Trivial to google. Whiteboard interviews for stuff like this are asinine.
- leptons 3y agoSorting by "Name" also achieves more or less the same thing.
- stevenwoo 3y agoI think I've used Windows since the beginning and I don't think it's anything to be ashamed of - there is no status update on the user interface (at least on my Windows 10 Task Manager) to indicate that pressing CTRL has any effect - it's like a precursor to all those hidden multiple finger/movement gestures on modern phones except with possibly less discoverability.
- seanp2k2 3y agoYou’re not the stupid one, their UI designers / devs are for hiding a useful feature and making the default UX suck.