I assume the answer is NO In short, you have the taskmanager opened on the details tab, the tasks are sorted by CPU (or memory) usage. You want to terminate a task. You have two choices, sorting the task alphabetically to have a stable list or play the cat and mouse game with the never stopping list, and the task you want to kill trying desperately to escape its death Well, turns out there is a better way (which was explained recently by the task-manager author). Just push the control key and the list will freeze. That's all, a simple genius feature, that was better to know some decades earlier...
I bet that even in MS no one was aware of the feature, outside the inner circle of the DEVs involved. That's pretty common on large projects... Once I explained a feature of Opera to the Opera inventor (and former CEO), and many of the other devs told me that it's something that happens frequently, given no hone has the whole picture of a big project.
No. The shell update has no updated taskmanager and asking for that feature from the original thing is a bit too much
Wow, thank you so much for this! Lol i never ever realized or noticed this.. As someone who has task manager open 24/7 and i used Windows since i know for myself lol..
Hehe, a lot of things are so well hidden in plain sight. Say I never discovered myself that the icons on the systray can be reordered dragging them (I think since seven) I discoverer very late that a double click on the divider between columns in details view (and in excel) set the right column width... Many users that don't have the Opera background like me, are unaware of many standard useful fetures that Opera set, and that practically any other browser cloned in the last 20 years, like the use of the middle button (to open a link in background, to close a tab and so on), the middle button usage was somewhat cloned also in other places, like notepad++ or windows itself (try to middle click on a taskbar button...). A subsection of those users aren't even aware at all that the wheel is also a middle button...
It's so nice to find actual references to such small discoveries. I knew the double click but had no idea about the CTRL one. It's too bad when things exist but aren't document, so the only to find them is by accident.
The CTRL thing wasn't even an accident, the original author of the task manager made it public. Some billions of people using Windows for 28 years and no one spotted it, even by mistake.
No I didn't know this. But now that I have known this couple weeks, I have used this trick. So thank you.