Since Windows NT 4.0, the main interface of the task manager has not changed. What improvements have Microsoft made in Windows 8? As long as the Windows user does not encounter the program stuck, it is because of this, the task manager has gained a lot of popularity, almost everyone knows to press the Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combination to call up the task manager to end the card. Dead your app or process.
Since Windows NT 4.0 and later, XP and Windows7 have been updated in detail, but the main interface has not changed. And in Win8, the new version of the task manager has changed a lot, so what improvements have it made in Win8?
Task Manager (short mode)
So simple? Is this the Windows Task Manager? Well, yes, if you get up right today, the task manager in Win 8 must be like this. The new version of Task Manager opens the abbreviated information mode by default, because most people use task management when it is certain that a program card is dead. To end it, if there are other functions, please click "Details" in the lower left corner.
This minimalist interface removes everything that is not related to the core application scenario. The user directly selects the program to terminate and clicks "End Task", done, and removes the "OK?" prompt box. Well, it is my best improvement in Win 8, no one.
Task Manager (Detailed Mode)
For advanced users, the task manager of the abbreviated mode is obviously not enough. Let's take a look at the task management of the detailed mode. .
New Grouping
Microsoft found that the most common operations used by users in the old version are "end application" and "end process". The most frequently clicked tabs are also "application" and "process". These two, and the frequency of use is basically the same, which means that there are some important details missing in the "Applications" page, causing the user to go to the "process" to find. Therefore, in the new version of the task management, the process is displayed in groups according to "application", "background process" and "Windows process", which is convenient for users to find.
New Display
The new Task Manager looks like the biggest difference in the interface with the old version is the use of color to represent the heat map of various values, attracting your attention to the most Obvious resource issues. It labels different colors depending on the usage rate. The darker the color, the more system resources are consumed. If the occupancy of a resource exceeds the set threshold, the title of the column will be highlighted to draw your attention. The left picture below is the red disk alarm prompt that is encountered when the Photoshop is closed urgently. This visually visually reflects the occupancy ratio by visually recognizing the information. It is not only beautiful and comfortable, but also makes the user at a glance.
New naming
The reason why many users don’t catch the process and service in the old task manager is that the naming is not "friendly", except for "QQ.exe". "explorer.exe" is still good to say, other piles of "svchost.exe", "dwm.exe" ... simply do not know. In the new version, Microsoft finally began to name the background process "friendly", for example, renamed "splwow64.exe" to "Print driver host for applications". In addition, all services are grouped by process and the "friendly" name for each service is displayed.
New Features
1. Process Tags
In the new version of Win 8 Task Manager you can expand applications with multiple tags (see The current selected tag, other tags are ignored, you can choose to end only the current tag under the program, rather than ending the entire program.
2. Support Metro Applications
In addition to traditional desktop applications, the new Task Manager also supports Metro applications, as shown below.
(Although the Metro apps are in memory, they are essentially in a hibernation state)
You can see that all Metro apps have zero CPU usage, which means that the Metro app in Win 8 is It is also similar to the tombstone mechanism on Windows Phone, that is, after leaving the Metro application page, the program will be terminated by the operating system, but the current state and data of the program will be saved to the tombstone, and the next time you switch back to the application, you can Recovering to the previous display state through the tombstone, the user looks like it is always running. Of course, users with a clean system can choose to click "end mission" to completely kill the dead "Robin".
In addition, under the "Application History" tab, you can see the summary of the resource usage of the Metro application, such as the CPU usage time, traffic consumption, and traffic consumed by the tile update. You can also delete these. The application's usage data is restarted. The consumption is also large, and there is also a clear color display, as shown below.
3. Online Search
In addition to the new naming, the new Task Manager adds online search capabilities to increase process identifiability and user friendliness. See the application, process name you have not seen, right-click to select online search, will automatically open the default browser search "current process name.exe" to view more details and related information to help you determine a background process Is it useful, otherwise it will be blue screen if you accidentally kill the wrong one.
4. Startup Management
In addition to the above changes to the display interface and new features, the new Task Manager also built the startup management function into "Startup". Under the tab, here you can set whether the displayed process is booted by right-clicking.
Note: In fact, Microsoft has moved this function from the "system configuration" to this place, and you open the familiar "system configuration" and found that it is not there yet, also indicate the step-by-step task. Manager.
Conclusion: As with the file manager we introduced earlier, according to Microsoft's official statement, every design change of the new Task Manager is based on a large amount of user data. It can be seen that this data-based user experience dominates. The advantages of design. However, it should be noted that " truly breakthrough innovation is rooted in a small number of cutting-edge users, and quantitative statistics cannot completely replace qualitative insights."