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First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager (latest Windows 11 Insider build 22538 emerges)
The Register ^ | Jan 20, 2022 | Richard Speed

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.

Task Manager in Windows XP

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: insider; microsoft; windows11; windowspinglist
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Pre-release preview and gossip for those with a desire to be on Windows' Bleeding Edge.


1 posted on 01/21/2022 12:58:18 PM PST by dayglored
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To: dayglored; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; ..
Windows 11 Update... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

I know, I need to update the "Windows 10 Update" image....

2 posted on 01/21/2022 12:59:40 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Egad!


3 posted on 01/21/2022 1:01:27 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: dayglored

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.


4 posted on 01/21/2022 1:01:27 PM PST by meatloaf
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To: dayglored

I actually had to use the TM just the other day to kill my java window, first time in a looong time..


5 posted on 01/21/2022 1:04:29 PM PST by ßuddaßudd ((>> ☼ << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if s/he's white?")
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To: meatloaf

create winpe or flashdrive

when it boots type these commands:

diskpart

sel disk 0

clean


6 posted on 01/21/2022 1:06:07 PM PST by algore
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To: meatloaf

Last I checked, my 2013 computer was incompatible with it so upgrade to an old motherboard. :)


7 posted on 01/21/2022 1:07:25 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: meatloaf

Windows is a no-go for me since they put updates ahead of actually using the PC.


8 posted on 01/21/2022 1:08:29 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: dayglored

I tell you, innovation is on afterburner steroids at MS!

Old: right-click-on-the-taskbar
New: right-click-on-the-start-button


9 posted on 01/21/2022 1:08:43 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: algore

Does this wipe the whole hard drive?


10 posted on 01/21/2022 1:09:04 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: dayglored

I like my 2009 Win-7 Pro X64 OS, and all its features. Working and well-protected, just fine.


11 posted on 01/21/2022 1:15:23 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: dayglored

“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...


12 posted on 01/21/2022 1:19:12 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: dayglored

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.


13 posted on 01/21/2022 1:19:16 PM PST by TomGuy (!)
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To: meatloaf

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.


14 posted on 01/21/2022 1:24:26 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: SkyDancer

yes it will clean your hard drive, but not like with a cloth

If you want that, you need to use clean all


15 posted on 01/21/2022 1:25:41 PM PST by algore
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To: meatloaf

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.


16 posted on 01/21/2022 1:26:08 PM PST by TomGuy (!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

does ctrl-shift-esc still work ?


17 posted on 01/21/2022 1:26:40 PM PST by algore
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To: meatloaf

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.


18 posted on 01/21/2022 1:27:19 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: meatloaf

cough Linux cough.


19 posted on 01/21/2022 1:28:49 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: dayglored

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.


20 posted on 01/21/2022 1:29:06 PM PST by TomGuy (!)
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