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TBF the task manager and those windows explorer dialogues were programed in like 1996 and it's probably one of the best functioning feature in Windows so changing it too much carries high risks.
This is such a Windows way of thinking. Why does every other OS constantly change and evolve but Windows is like “can’t touch this code from a quarter century ago?”
Becuase it's still integral to countless businesses operations.
I don't see the problem with it. Microsoft historically does a great job of making everything worse with updates.
Because any time anything changes in Windows, people bitch about it.
I dare say, that 90% of all companies in Europe and US, use Windows. And lots of companies relies heavily on software built 20-30 years ago. Microsoft knows this.
That's why they are very reluctant to "touch that piece of code from a quarter century ago" because there's probably a lot of software that would break without it. Software their target audience need.
You ever worked in like a real job? Have you ever seen the amount of legacy code that depends on some other legacy piece of shit which itself depends on...?
It's absolutely maddening, being there, diagnosing the issue and absolutely having no way to do anything about it because no time, not allowed, no need if it ain't broken, our customers rely on this specific version, etc.
It's not a Windows way of thinking, it's what every single one of the businesses I've worked with for the last twenty or so years think like. And changing shit is incredibly expensive.
It just hasn’t been my experience at all as a developer. I’m sorry you’ve been forced to keep legacy code around for the sake of not breaking things.
Lol yea, but it would have been such a small tweak with big big QoL improvements LMAO
You can use process explorer, it even has option to act as a replacement for task manager.
Edit: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
There is nothing in windows that's a small tweak.
Changing anything has implications to a banking business Joe somewhere, who's program depends on the original feature working as it does, or one of the 16 layers of code is simply tangled in a way such change would require cascade of rewrites.
I've read articles about various developments: working with ~~regex~~ registry*, or just adding a control panel option, and it's an absolute nightmare.
Bring back spacebar heating!
The current UI is very different to the original UI though.
Yeah I think they changed how it looks starting in Windows 8.
On my Windows 10 laptop, Task Manager virtually freezes the whole system for about four seconds when you switch tabs.
Well the only Windows 10 system still receiving support is Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC, afaik, and I have one which does not have that particular problems. Are you properly scheduling updates so that it doesn't run automatically?
It's a pretty old issue (and you can find others complaining online over the years) and my current machine is running Gentoo Linux, so I'm not trying to fix it any more.