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Old August 4th 15, 01:09 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Bring back the old Task Manager in W8

Good day.

Just stumbled on this:
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-resto...-in-windows-8/

Paul, this is for you (I have W8 only @ Work, and it's best if I keep it as generic as possible so I have the same as my users). I took don't like the new Task Manager...

Best Regards,

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Old August 4th 15, 01:41 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Bring back the old Task Manager in W8

On 04/08/2015 01:09, B00ze wrote:
Good day.

Just stumbled on this:
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-resto...-in-windows-8/

Paul, this is for you (I have W8 only @ Work, and it's best if I keep it as generic as possible so I have the same as my users). I took don't like the new Task Manager...

Best Regards,


Why would anybody be so stupid to install anything in windows 8 to look
like Windows XP. We are in 2015 and there is no point in using
something which was invented in 2001. It is time to move on and start
using what is already in Windows 8 and 8.1. In fact you should be in
Windows 8.1 by now as Windows 8 was replaced by Microsoft by giving away
a free upgrade to anybody who wanted one.



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Old August 4th 15, 01:48 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Bring back the old Task Manager in W8

On 2015-08-03 20:41, Good Guy wrote:

On 04/08/2015 01:09, B00ze wrote:
Good day.

Just stumbled on this:
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-resto...-in-windows-8/

Paul, this is for you (I have W8 only @ Work, and it's best if I keep it as generic as possible so I have the same as my users). I too don't like the new Task Manager...

Best Regards,


Why would anybody be so stupid to install anything in windows 8 to look
like Windows XP. We are in 2015 and there is no point in using
something which was invented in 2001. It is time to move on and start
using what is already in Windows 8 and 8.1. In fact you should be in
Windows 8.1 by now as Windows 8 was replaced by Microsoft by giving away
a free upgrade to anybody who wanted one.


When I write W8 I mean Windows 8.1 Enterprise, I don't bother to
differentiate the two, 8.1 is really just 8 Sp1. And the new Task
Manager sucks, you have to run Resource Monitor to see all your cores
and the darn thing can't be bothered to remember which TAB you had
previously opened. And according to Paul, it doesn't run at a high
enough priority to let you kill tasks using 100% of your CPU.

Best Regards,

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Old August 4th 15, 02:09 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Keith Nuttle
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Default Bring back the old Task Manager in W8

On 8/3/2015 8:48 PM, B00ze wrote:
On 2015-08-03 20:41, Good Guy wrote:

On 04/08/2015 01:09, B00ze wrote:
Good day.

Just stumbled on this:
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-resto...-in-windows-8/


Paul, this is for you (I have W8 only @ Work, and it's best if I keep
it as generic as possible so I have the same as my users). I too
don't like the new Task Manager...

Best Regards,


Why would anybody be so stupid to install anything in windows 8 to look
like Windows XP. We are in 2015 and there is no point in using
something which was invented in 2001. It is time to move on and start
using what is already in Windows 8 and 8.1. In fact you should be in
Windows 8.1 by now as Windows 8 was replaced by Microsoft by giving away
a free upgrade to anybody who wanted one.


When I write W8 I mean Windows 8.1 Enterprise, I don't bother to
differentiate the two, 8.1 is really just 8 Sp1. And the new Task
Manager sucks, you have to run Resource Monitor to see all your cores
and the darn thing can't be bothered to remember which TAB you had
previously opened. And according to Paul, it doesn't run at a high
enough priority to let you kill tasks using 100% of your CPU.

Best Regards,


In the Process Tab, you can kill any task in the windows 8.1 task
manager by right clicking on the program, and clicking End Task.

Personal I find the Windows 8.1 task manager far superior to that in XP,
as I can look at the performance tab and see the CPU, Memory, and WiFi
usage. In addition any disk I am using appears in the Performance tab
so I can keep track of all disk usage.

There is so much more information available in the Windows 8.1 Task
Manager, I can not imaging any one favoring the one in XP over the one
in 8.1
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Old August 4th 15, 02:12 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
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Default Bring back the old Task Manager in W8

On 04/08/2015 01:48, B00ze wrote:

When I write W8 I mean Windows 8.1 Enterprise, I don't bother to
differentiate the two, 8.1 is really just 8 Sp1. And the new Task
Manager sucks, you have to run Resource Monitor to see all your cores
and the darn thing can't be bothered to remember which TAB you had
previously opened. And according to Paul, it doesn't run at a high
enough priority to let you kill tasks using 100% of your CPU.




I don't know who the Paul is but we had a drug junkie here who was
hallucinated almost daily when he was around on these newsgroups. Did
you have any problems of killing tasks? I haven't had any problems what
so ever so far and I like using Windows 8.1 until I get Windows 10 end
of this month or early next month.

I have ordered 60 Optiplex machines for my department from DELL and the
shipment will take place end of this month when they start rolling out
Windows 10.




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Old August 4th 15, 05:25 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul
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Default Bring back the old Task Manager in W8

B00ze wrote:
Good day.

Just stumbled on this:
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-resto...-in-windows-8/

Paul, this is for you (I have W8 only @ Work, and it's best if I keep it as generic as possible so I have the same as my users). I took don't like the new Task Manager...

Best Regards,


Thanks for this :-)

I had an instance just yesterday, of Win8 locking up. Even
my keyboard looked like it had stopped working, as the caps-lock
test failed. But eventually I got a control-alt-delete into
the machine. I was using PerfectDisk and had just opened
Firefox at the time. I'd really like a decent Task
Manager, that always responds as it should.

Paul
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Old August 4th 15, 09:58 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Bring back the old Task Manager in W8

B00ze wrote:

Just stumbled on this:
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-resto...-in-windows-8/


Some folks prefer MORE information than Task Manager provides (for any
Microsoft version). For example, you can set an option in SysInternals'
Process Explorer to have it replace the Task Manager. However, while
Task Manager has tabs for Performance (to see CPU and memory usage), you
have to use the View - System Information menu. There is a toolbar
that shows some info but the details are in the other view.

With the VirusTotal plug-in, both Process Explorer and Autoruns from
SysInternals will highlight processes or startup items that fail one of
the AV scanners that VirusTotal uses. No, not every program file and
process gets scanned. Instead the hash of the file is sent to
VirusTotal to see if the file has already been scanned. No point in
re-scanning a file that hasn't changed. AutoRuns will also highlight
startup programs that have no Description and a blank Author.
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Old August 4th 15, 07:13 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Dave Cohen[_2_]
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Default Bring back the old Task Manager in W8

On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 01:41:32 +0100, Good Guy wrote:

On 04/08/2015 01:09, B00ze wrote:
Good day.

Just stumbled on this:
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-resto...sk-manager-in-

windows-8/

Paul, this is for you (I have W8 only @ Work, and it's best if I keep
it as generic as possible so I have the same as my users). I took don't
like the new Task Manager...

Best Regards,


Why would anybody be so stupid to install anything in windows 8 to look
like Windows XP. We are in 2015 and there is no point in using
something which was invented in 2001. It is time to move on and start
using what is already in Windows 8 and 8.1. In fact you should be in
Windows 8.1 by now as Windows 8 was replaced by Microsoft by giving away
a free upgrade to anybody who wanted one.


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