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Thanks, I think that was it. Yes, there are always "reasons", but things have got dramatically worse, with especially 8 -> 10 -> 11. It particularly annoys me

Thanks, I think that was it. Yes, there are always "reasons", but things have got dramatically worse, with especially 8 -> 10 -> 11. It particularly annoys me when apps/widget/utilities partially load in and sit there with nothing but a blank chrome, slowly partially rendering. It's a plague that has affected everything, even Task Manager.

anonymars 1y ago
Oh man, don't even get me started on Task Manager. Which used to be pretty-much bulletproof, because they understood the assignment: https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote_task_manager_and_i_just_remembered/ https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote... Now, holy smokes - what a dumpster fire. Most of the time it doesn't get me out of trouble anymore. Here are some of my favorite Windows 11 UI changes: - complete waste of space on the side now. it doesn't even save any vertical space because of how bloated it is - nonsense iconography on the side (services, startup apps in particular) - Processes: "..." overflow has one item, View. I get that they want it more touch friendly but even then how clunky is that to navigate?! - Performance: Resource Monitor was right there, now it is again buried in a stupid "..." menu, again to save space for...nothing? - Details: The column picker is preposterous. It was already annoying before, mostly because you couldn't resize it, but they didn't fix that, no. Now you can see only 5 columns at a time. I seem to remember the column selection used to be a bit better before Windows 8 or 10 (like there was some other way to get that menu besides right-clicking the column headers) but I can't easily check - In general I find that "Processes", "Performance", and "Details" all disagree about CPU usage Tip: `taskmgr -d` runs the previous UI
- qcnguy 1y ago
  The UI for taskmanager was never great. Your link says so too. It's full of stuff like "If all your titlebars disappear and you just have a graph, double-click dead client space to switch back to normal mode" and "If Task Manager ever hangs or crashes, start another by pressing ctrl-shift-esc." and "If Task Manager ever becomes internally corrupted, kill/close it. Restart it while holding down CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT, and Task Manager will reset ALL internal settings to factory fresh" How to discover any of this except by reading a reddit post by the developer? "There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill - it will even escalate privilege and (if you have it) enable debug privilege to attach to and kill apps that way if needed." Why is this even necessary? It's a part of the OS, it should not need One Weird Trick to kill processes.

anonymars 1y ago

Oh man, don't even get me started on Task Manager. Which used to be pretty-much bulletproof, because they understood the assignment: https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote_task_manager_and_i_just_remembered/ https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/gqb915/i_wrote... Now, holy smokes - what a dumpster fire. Most of the time it doesn't get me out of trouble anymore. Here are some of my favorite Windows 11 UI changes: - complete waste of space on the side now. it doesn't even save any vertical space because of how bloated it is - nonsense iconography on the side (services, startup apps in particular) - Processes: "..." overflow has one item, View. I get that they want it more touch friendly but even then how clunky is that to navigate?! - Performance: Resource Monitor was right there, now it is again buried in a stupid "..." menu, again to save space for...nothing? - Details: The column picker is preposterous. It was already annoying before, mostly because you couldn't resize it, but they didn't fix that, no. Now you can see only 5 columns at a time. I seem to remember the column selection used to be a bit better before Windows 8 or 10 (like there was some other way to get that menu besides right-clicking the column headers) but I can't easily check - In general I find that "Processes", "Performance", and "Details" all disagree about CPU usage Tip: `taskmgr -d` runs the previous UI

qcnguy 1y ago
The UI for taskmanager was never great. Your link says so too. It's full of stuff like "If all your titlebars disappear and you just have a graph, double-click dead client space to switch back to normal mode" and "If Task Manager ever hangs or crashes, start another by pressing ctrl-shift-esc." and "If Task Manager ever becomes internally corrupted, kill/close it. Restart it while holding down CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT, and Task Manager will reset ALL internal settings to factory fresh" How to discover any of this except by reading a reddit post by the developer? "There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill - it will even escalate privilege and (if you have it) enable debug privilege to attach to and kill apps that way if needed." Why is this even necessary? It's a part of the OS, it should not need One Weird Trick to kill processes.