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[-] teft@lemmy.world 122 points 9 months ago

Ctrl-shift-esc will open the task manager directly. None of that Carl alt del nonsense.

[-] buycurious@lemmy.world 81 points 9 months ago

Ctrl-alt-del is meant to be a hard interrupt to the system.

Ctrl-shift-esc treats it like another task.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Interesting so that's why system performance gets wonky when task Manager is opened with CTRL+alt+Del

I'll keep that in mind when I wanna kill tasks but not disrupt performance

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I assume this terminology originally referred to an actual interrupt handled by a kernel interrupt handler, and half of the people in this thread have no idea what that means.

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's so dumb, but okay.

Edit: dumb that using the shortcut to open the task manager doesn't interrupt the system. That's what ctrl-alt-del did before windows 8 or whenever, open the task manager regardless of what was happening. Now I have to use that annoying lock-screen menu to open the task manager to kill processes if things are locked up. Didn't know that, horribly unintuitive

[-] force@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

how is it dumb? literally just press ctrl shift esc

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If your computer is locked up, you have to use ctrl-alt-del, with its menu of options including the task manager, in order to interrupt the current processes locking up the system.

Using ctrl-shift-esc launches the task manager program without a system interrupt, meaning it won't unlock the computer. Which is dumb, because why else would I be opening the task manager other than to interrupt some out-of-control process? I guess you could be using it to monitor or something else, but that's what I'm used to opening the task manager to be doing. I didn't even realize this until this comment.

[-] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 8 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I use task manager way more often for monitoring than I use it for stopping processes.

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

I check ram and cpu usage and change startup apps or task priority just as much as I need to force quit.

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 9 months ago

When i was using windows i killed programs quite regularly with ctrl shift esc. I didn't need a full system interrupt but the programs weren't completely out if control.

[-] force@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

then just press ctrl alt del if you want a system interrupt??? there's a reason they have bindings for both. it's not much harder, the task manager doesn't exist solely for killing some program that won't respond.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 23 points 9 months ago
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