Windows 8's Advanced Task Manager Revealed

Hopefully this will at least compete with Process Explorer...

Yes, Process Explorer is what I call advanced in comparison to Task Manger. This seems just big fluffy icons and graphs.

Probably because there's going to be a tablet version of W8 to coincide with a MS tablet in 2012.

The should have at least a toggle for "normal PC" or "tablet/touch PC", so that for us normal users we don't have to put up with the HUGE icons taking up all that screen space.

It needs to show what network resources are being used (sockets and such), not this big stupid icon crap. Granted with the later windows, they are showing "Image Path Name" and "Command Line", which are great, but you still have to correlate a PID with the output of "netstat -ano" from the command line.

They've got a level of detail dropdown in the upper right there.

General MS UI design will put small compact icons near what you are working on and large ones far away. Think right click vs ribbon.

They are actually pretty good at making UIs. I'm having faith this will turn out.

Resource monitor in Win7 does this. No need to drop to a netstat. See Network tab then check a box by the process.

As for the big touch friendly icons.. there seems to be a detail slider in the upper right.

I am a little surpised that MS is leaking details of Windows 8 already... the adoption of Windows 7 isnt even fully in swing...

if its a more tablet friendly o/s i would call it by a different name

I guess after 16 threads, the old task manager gets crowded.

So much whitespace and foofy graphics. Can't wait to open it up and see CPU usage spike 10%.

Except for Windows Phone 7 UI...

No process tab, no handles, no libraries, no physical x virtual RAM usage meters, no resource details/meter per process. It's certainly the least "advanced" task manager MS has ever made.

Suggestion for a touch-friendly way to kill tasks: A "flipping the bird" gesture.

All new Advanced Task manager will now show you less info and options it also makes it that much easier to screw up your computer by giving normal users who know about Task manager access to Registry editor witch we all know someone will need to mess with because it's there and well do you think M$ will put disclaimers up telling the user that changes there are made in real time?.... I doubt it. Thanks MS for making something that's worked for the last 3 versions of windows into something that is going to be more confusing less informative and all around a bad idea it's what I've known and grown to expect from you.

Windows 7 will work for me until Windows 9 comes out. I would still us XP64 if they had decent driver support.

GEEZ! Seems like I haven't had Windows 7 for very long and now there's talk of Windows 8. Seems like it is happening to quick.

Is it just me or is finding actual information on the health and status of your computer terrible in Windows 7? Like there are 10 differnet programs not really in the same place. For example you have the task manager, device manager, advanced tools (under performance info and tools under settings) disk defrag, disk cleanup, performance monitor- all in a bunch of differnet places.

Keep in mind that big icons on a tablet usually show up much smaller on a PC due to the DPI and size of the monitors used in comparison to a small tablet with lower resolution, and they've always had a way to change the icon size in windows since 95.

As a gamer, I would like a feature to have a resource monitor overlay that can be shown whilst gaming.

Graphs for ram usage, CPU usage, GPU usage, temperatures on the latter two etc.

process explorer is made by microsoft..why use this?

Yeah yeah, settle down. There has been an incremental improvement to each iteration of task manager for several versions now. Don't take a leaked screenshot from prerelease software that you can't tweak or configure (notice that detail slider in top right?) and LEEEAAP to some far off conclussion. Oh, and it's MS, not M$. It's 2011 now, not 1999.

Just you. Most of those things are consolidated into Computer Management. The rest would just start adding bloat to an otherwise good interface. You know you can make custom MMCs right?

holly f. just today i was pissed that task manager doesn't contain hdd. this is awesome. maybe i'll update after all

just what i needed - an easy way to kill tasks. Not too reassuring about windows stability, but at least they make killing tasks user-friendly.

It just looks like they have combined resource monitor with task manager and called it advanced.

I'm quite happy with the Windows 7 resource monitor, thank you very much. Don't see any reason to cut it in half and smash it into the task manager, and call it intuitive.

Well, it was about time Task Manager got an overhaul anyway. The current way is simple and fast but we can definitely use more control.

I just dont understand why you guys dont read what microsoft themseves have said (i was at a w7 launch party)

they will be doing a full kernel review every 3 years just like the used to up until xp !

Does this mean that MS will ACTUALLY update the Drive Properties to modern levels?

Seriously, go to explorer - Right click to drive properties.
That low-res ugly purple and blue pie-chart is the SAME thing from Windows95. It should be more 3D, transparent and look nice.

Same for standard pull down menus... still Windows 2000.

I like the menus as they are, the pie charts as they are too. This is a problem for MS, satisfying both of us. I hoped they would do the sensible thing and not change the interface since either way some people would be not satisfied. They can't possibly support 2 shells for windows, can they?
Thumbs up for all linux users that can chose their combination of kernel and shell.
Thumbs up for all those who support freedom.