Windows 8's Advanced Task Manager Revealed

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Keep an eye on what your computer is doing.

Windows 8 will have an new kind of task manager, called Advanced Task Manager. According to information obtained by WinRumors, it appears to be a combination of Microsoft's Task Manager and the Resource Monitor.

There's also appears to be considerations made for touch interfaces, as there's a touch-friendly way to kill tasks – perhaps for tablet implementations of Windows 8.

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.