Remembering the good times
Posted on 01/21/2022 12:58:18 PM PST by dayglored
[Dayglored note: This is about an "Insider" build, not the version most users get. The "Insider" releases are for developers and eager-beaver Windows fanbois who want to try things before they're done, knowing they might break.]
Is nothing safe from the dead hand of the Windows 11 design aesthetic?
Windows' murderous Task Manager looks set to get a makeover in Windows 11 after a work-in-progress turned up in the latest Insider Dev Channel build.
Remembering the good times
The build, 22538, is an otherwise relatively mundane emission from the Windows team.
Sure, there was great excitement among the community when the volume control that harked back to the days of Windows 8 was ditched in favour of something a bit more in keeping with the world of Windows 11 (you can now change the volume using your mouse or touchpad). But Task Manager has so far retained its last redesign, and still looks like a throwback to Windows of yesteryear.
That's assuming users can actually find it. Infamously, Microsoft removed the familiar right-click-on-the-taskbar approach of old for Windows 11 and adopted a slightly odd right-click-on-the-start-button method instead.
The original Task Manager was a utility developed by former Microsoft programmer Dave Plummer and first turned up in Windows NT 4. "Task Manager is," said Plummer, "quite frankly, a natural born killer."
Or at least it was, until the poor thing was defanged as Windows evolved. Its inability to be quite as murderous these days as Plummer had originally intended has led to gnashing of teeth by administrators and a "You were supposed to kill the Not Responding Tasks, not join them" meme.
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I know, I need to update the "Windows 10 Update" image....
Egad!
How do you stop the Windows 11 downgrade. With the intermittent DSL access here, I’m thinking the one Windows 10 machine will end up as a brick.
I actually had to use the TM just the other day to kill my java window, first time in a looong time..
create winpe or flashdrive
when it boots type these commands:
diskpart
sel disk 0
clean
Last I checked, my 2013 computer was incompatible with it so upgrade to an old motherboard. :)
Windows is a no-go for me since they put updates ahead of actually using the PC.
I tell you, innovation is on afterburner steroids at MS!
Old: right-click-on-the-taskbar
New: right-click-on-the-start-button
Does this wipe the whole hard drive?
I like my 2009 Win-7 Pro X64 OS, and all its features. Working and well-protected, just fine.
“Pre-release preview and gossip for those with a desire to be on Windows’ Bleeding Edge.
I have no clue how to explain this phenomenon... Been trying since Win 10 came out and still cannot understand it...
Microsoft and Windows have never been customer-centric. Microsoft has a long history of canning applications without regard for those using such applications.
Newer has not always been better in the computer world.
The forced updates bricked my computer. What’s worse is the new licensing schemes of my engineering software wants money to reset the licenses. Jerks. I would still be on Windows 7 if it wasn’t for the software companies forcing the upgrade. My 7 machines are solid.
yes it will clean your hard drive, but not like with a cloth
If you want that, you need to use clean all
There are some 3rd party Task Manager programs. They will probably continue to work.
New Windows versions do keep 3rd party developers busy developing or improving utilities.
does ctrl-shift-esc still work ?
Wipe that sucker and make it Linux... Like right now and not screw around with this crap anymore... It is never a brick, this is what Linux is made for.
Linux Mint “Cinnamon” will give you an almost exact Win 7 machine.
Need a hand? I am available. I have helped quite a few from here go Linux. I think most of those are glad they did.
cough Linux cough.
Just last week I installed the new version of Linux Mint (20.3) on a new SSD. I like Mint better and better. It boots in about 12 seconds.
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