Well it’s not bad in theory, it just runs like ass… This version already runs 10 times faster than the real thing, sometimes I wonder what the hell is going on over at Microsoft.
Thing is when your system is dying and nothing is responding, you can almost always trust task manager to respond because of its privileges, simplicity and the fact it’s built into the OS rather than using APIs, even if explorer.exe crashes.
Given there’s no “ctrl-alt-f2: Imma go fix this mess” on Windows, having at least something you can rely on to not die is super valuable even if it is bad.
I’m not saying this tool isn’t better for system monitoring (but I would like to see something like KSysGuard), just that Microsoft absolutely shouldn’t touch task manager to fix whatever’s wrong with it’s resource usage monitoring functionality to avoid breaking something else in it
Have you tried out the Windows 11 22h2 version? THAT one is crappy af. Even switching between menus in the sidepanel can take a few seconds to register, and I‘ve had friends with powerful Nvidia GPUs report about the same issue.
Are you on windows 11 yet? The only place where I still use windows is my company notebook. And it’s not top notch high end, but it has a ssd, it has a 6 core cpu and it has 16 GB of RAM, yet it still runs like absolute ass.
With virtually NOTHING going on, it takes about 3 - 5 seconds for task manager to open. Clicking on “processes” takes 5 seconds, not just the first time, but every-time I switch to processes (or pretty much any tab for that matter). I too believed that there was probably an issue with my device or something, but I just had to use a replacement notebook that has even newer hardware and it runs exactly the same…
Now is that unusable? No, I’m probably a bit nit-picky. But it does absolutely infuriate me that Microsoft seems to struggle more and more with performance with every new windows version, especially when I also work with Linux systems that just are 10 times smoother with half the hardware specs…
Before windows 11, I would more or less agree with you. Task manager would be reliable even when the machine was struggling. But since I use windows 11, I had task manager crash multiple times.
Task manager is one of the most lightweight tools Windows has these days. It’s not slow at all.
“More data points in the graph” doesn’t mean the code runs any better. Task manager needs to run on machines where making basic graphs takes up 25% of a CPU core, there’s no need to waste CPU cycles taking 60 measurements per second.
Well it’s not bad in theory, it just runs like ass… This version already runs 10 times faster than the real thing, sometimes I wonder what the hell is going on over at Microsoft.
Thing is when your system is dying and nothing is responding, you can almost always trust task manager to respond because of its privileges, simplicity and the fact it’s built into the OS rather than using APIs, even if explorer.exe crashes.
Given there’s no “ctrl-alt-f2: Imma go fix this mess” on Windows, having at least something you can rely on to not die is super valuable even if it is bad.
I’m not saying this tool isn’t better for system monitoring (but I would like to see something like KSysGuard), just that Microsoft absolutely shouldn’t touch task manager to fix whatever’s wrong with it’s resource usage monitoring functionality to avoid breaking something else in it
What’s wrong with your pc if Task Manager runs like ass lol.
Task Manager is like… The one thing guaranteed to run on a potato
Have you tried out the Windows 11 22h2 version? THAT one is crappy af. Even switching between menus in the sidepanel can take a few seconds to register, and I‘ve had friends with powerful Nvidia GPUs report about the same issue.
Are you on windows 11 yet? The only place where I still use windows is my company notebook. And it’s not top notch high end, but it has a ssd, it has a 6 core cpu and it has 16 GB of RAM, yet it still runs like absolute ass.
With virtually NOTHING going on, it takes about 3 - 5 seconds for task manager to open. Clicking on “processes” takes 5 seconds, not just the first time, but every-time I switch to processes (or pretty much any tab for that matter). I too believed that there was probably an issue with my device or something, but I just had to use a replacement notebook that has even newer hardware and it runs exactly the same…
Now is that unusable? No, I’m probably a bit nit-picky. But it does absolutely infuriate me that Microsoft seems to struggle more and more with performance with every new windows version, especially when I also work with Linux systems that just are 10 times smoother with half the hardware specs…
Before windows 11, I would more or less agree with you. Task manager would be reliable even when the machine was struggling. But since I use windows 11, I had task manager crash multiple times.
Task manager is one of the most lightweight tools Windows has these days. It’s not slow at all.
“More data points in the graph” doesn’t mean the code runs any better. Task manager needs to run on machines where making basic graphs takes up 25% of a CPU core, there’s no need to waste CPU cycles taking 60 measurements per second.
The Windows task manager only refreshes at a certain interval. Holding F5 will make it refresh as fast as it can.