Vista - Wow... way cool new Task Manager in Vista

Okay, sometimes I am a master of the obvious (too often, I guess).

But...

If you haven't already taken a look at the new Vista Task Manager... do it
now. I love it! This is the first time I've been able to really look at it.

Especially check out the [Resource Monitor] button under the Performance
Tab. Lots of very good stuff there!

My apologies to everyone who has already witnessed this new feature!

-Frank

it's looks vertually the same as XP
"Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, sometimes I am a master of the obvious (too often, I guess).
>
> But...
>
> If you haven't already taken a look at the new Vista Task Manager... do it
> now. I love it! This is the first time I've been able to really look at
> it.
>
> Especially check out the [Resource Monitor] button under the Performance
> Tab. Lots of very good stuff there!
>
> My apologies to everyone who has already witnessed this new feature!
>
> -Frank

No... it does not. But I'll have some of what you've been drinking.

-Frank

"WoW" <startrek.jackson@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> it's looks vertually the same as XP
> "Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
> news:5NudnUO4GOgA1VLYnZ2dnUVZ_tSunZ2d@giganews.com...
>> Okay, sometimes I am a master of the obvious (too often, I guess).
>>
>> But...
>>
>> If you haven't already taken a look at the new Vista Task Manager... do
>> it now. I love it! This is the first time I've been able to really look
>> at it.
>>
>> Especially check out the [Resource Monitor] button under the Performance
>> Tab. Lots of very good stuff there!
>>
>> My apologies to everyone who has already witnessed this new feature!
>>
>> -Frank
>

"Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
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> No... it does not. But I'll have some of what you've been drinking.
>

The only thing I can see different is the reliability and resource monitor.
Whathave you been drinking? lol

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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>
> "Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
> news:NvGdncSju5qwyVLYnZ2dnUVZ_vGinZ2d@giganews.com...
>> No... it does not. But I'll have some of what you've been drinking.
>>
>
> The only thing I can see different is the reliability and resource
> monitor.
> Whathave you been drinking? lol

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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> "Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
> news:NvGdncSju5qwyVLYnZ2dnUVZ_vGinZ2d@giganews.com...
>> No... it does not. But I'll have some of what you've been drinking.
>>
>
> The only thing I can see different is the reliability and resource
> monitor.
> Whathave you been drinking? lol

Drinking? Okay, here's some of the most obvious differences I see in Vista
when I have an XP box side-by-side (maybe some of these are lost on
non-techie types). Or... maybe these are not available in XP Home. I have XP
Business.

- Addition of [Services] and [Users] Tab
- New [Services] Shows Description of all running services
- New [Users] Shows all users on system
- [Performance]
- Has "Resource Monitor" button, XP does not
- Shows "Memory" and "Physical Memory Usage and History graph, XP does not
(XP shoes Pagefile usage and history graph.
- [Resource Monitor] Shows CPU, DISK, NETWORK and MEMORY statistics and
information
- You can tell what service or process, specifically, might be
responsible for disk activity
- You can see the actual name of the executable that is responsible for
what percentage of CPU usage

There is tons more information available in the Vista Task Manager than was
available in XP without using third party apps, command line tools, or other
stand-alone programs.

What? Are you guys blind? Or just not techie enough to appreciate this
convenient readout?

-Frank

I like the new services integration with task manager.

Firstly, on the processes tab, click Show processes from all users.

- Notice the Services tab, where you can do basic administration of services
- If you right-click a svchost (or any exe) in the Processes tab and click
Go To Services, it will move you to the Services tab and hilight all of the
services that live in that process

Also, the Up Time for the system is now displayed in the Performance screen.


--
- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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> "Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
> news:NvGdncSju5qwyVLYnZ2dnUVZ_vGinZ2d@giganews.com...
>> No... it does not. But I'll have some of what you've been drinking.
>>
>
> The only thing I can see different is the reliability and resource
> monitor.
> Whathave you been drinking? lol

Okay, my last post bit the dust just as I finished detailing the differences
between XP and Vista Task Manager. I'm not gonna do it over. But this new
Task Manager allows much better understanding of what the system is doing.
Maybe some of that is lost on non-techie types.

-Frank

Good, my full post showed up after all.

Funny, I only hit the send button once, but one message went out with only
the quoted text with all my additions missing, then another post went out
with everything included. Weird? A Windows Mail issue? Or maybe it's just
me!

-Frank

"Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
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> "Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
>> news:NvGdncSju5qwyVLYnZ2dnUVZ_vGinZ2d@giganews.com...
>>> No... it does not. But I'll have some of what you've been drinking.
>>>
>>
>> The only thing I can see different is the reliability and resource
>> monitor.
>> Whathave you been drinking? lol
>
> Okay, my last post bit the dust just as I finished detailing the
> differences between XP and Vista Task Manager. I'm not gonna do it over.
> But this new Task Manager allows much better understanding of what the
> system is doing. Maybe some of that is lost on non-techie types.
>
> -Frank

"Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
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> Good, my full post showed up after all.
>
> Funny, I only hit the send button once, but one message went out with only
> the quoted text with all my additions missing, then another post went out
> with everything included. Weird? A Windows Mail issue? Or maybe it's just
> me!

I think the MS server has been having problems for about a week now.