OK, now what?

Somebody needs to find whoever was responsible for the original NT task manager and learn a thing or two. That thing was bulletproof. I had servers over the years that were so broken nothing else would run but you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and tada!

David Plummer, he has a YouTube channel "Dave's garage" he has a couple of videos dedicated to Taskmanager and even a look at the source for his first version. That and other cool stuff on windows and other tech.
- I love his channel. Very informative and entertaining.
- One of his videos about task manager is one of those YouTube videos that just won't go away from being suggested for me.
- TIL... Thanks for the tip. I'm going to search some of that stuff out.
He has a YouTube channel. Dave's Garage
https://youtu.be/Ve95Nh690l0
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- And it's really good, has some fun stories from the early days at Microsoft
for the love of god, for the past 27 years it's been ctrl-shift-esc (since like NT 4.0), while ctrl-alt-del opens up the security menu thing. I can't believe I'm saying this..
i thought programmers liked doing things faster
- CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is simply a keyboard shortcut and is useless on a locked up system, it dies with the shell. CTRL+ALT+DEL throws a hardware interrupt, which contributed to the aforementioned bulletproof nature.

Steps to fix:

Shut down your pc.
Install a proper OS, i.e. a linux distribution.
Be happy.

Yeah, then you'll have 1000 other problems but not one with task manager. The best task manager in Linux is still htop because Linux doesn't like making GUIs that are reliable and functional. Last time I was using fedora, the mouse settings GUI wouldn't work and I had to set mouse speed in my bashrc.
- Does linux have guis at all? I mean it's just a kernel.
- Real talk though, how long ago was that? Linux has been making improvements at a blistering pace. If it's been a while, I'd recommend giving it another try soon.
- If you're gonna bash a DE at least name it. Fedora is a distribution of Linux and could have any DE it wanted. If I had to guess, you tried Linux years ago, got upset and didn't wanna give a fair shake and uninstalled? Its worth trying again with a level head. Gotten a lot more usable. I like KDE Plasma

Install Linux

You can only install Linux at that point

There is a reason why the task manager was largely unchanged until windows 11.

I dunno, the Win10 version seems pretty neutered compared to previous versions.
- How so?

What's the point of even "modernising" task manager?

Normies that would care about task manager being too ugly probably don't know it even exists.

There goes the last dependable program that Windows had to offer

It happened a while ago too. Like windows 8 I think. Old task manager popped up no matter how laggy your computer was. It has some sort of highest priority and didn't depend on much. Making it reliable. Since 8, this changed. Any changes since have been add-ons and reskins. I like how it shows things like gpu now but at what cost.

Open up task manager manager

Wait, that's illegal

Install Task Manager Manager

htop

You have no tasks, there's nothing to manage. I'd say you're done for the day.

Run new task? More like run away.

Where is your god now?

wait a little bit, electron is still loading...

now install gentoo

Okay, I don't think Gentoo is the best OS for beginners
But
I think people new to computers (yes, I mean kids) should be handed a computer booted off a gentoo image with the handbook and wiki.

@dave

nothing to do here but go complain to the original developer

https://twitter.com/davepl1968

oh hey look, another dave!

Same feeling of an extinguisher catching fire

Start > Run > taskkill /F /IM:taskmgr.exe

There is a developer setting that enables "kill task" in the task bar right-click menu. I recommend enabling it. I believe this is new since I just found out about it. It may only be in Windows Insider Dev Channel and/or Windows 11 Enterprise version, I'm not sure.

🤣 this makes me laugh. Who watches the Watchmen?

It took me some time to realize this was windows 11

Time for good ol' Ctrl-Alt-Del...

Er... I mean, time to hit the good ol' reboot button.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Use the Windows 7 task manager at win7games.com. (ignore the name, I am NOT Winaero)

I don’t see the problem, you have such a powerful computer that there’s no process it cannot complete instantly. /s

Computer bought the farm, EIEIO.

Had this myself recently, process explorer still works though. tskill taskmgr.exe would probably work too.

Third party tools. Like always.

Do you have any examples or recommendations of said third party tools you prefer?
- Process Hacker. You can set it as default in the settings.

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