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
Steps to fix:
- Shut down your pc.
- Install a proper OS, i.e. a linux distribution.
- Be happy.
You can only install Linux at that point
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?
Open up task manager manager
Wait, that’s illegal
Install Task Manager Manager
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btop
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.
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
wait a little bit, electron is still loading…
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.
Where is your god now?
Start > Run > taskkill /F /IM:taskmgr.exe
