As I’ve been playing with Windows 8 this last week, I really love the new Task Manager. Perhaps it’s just because I’m curious–but shortly after playing with it, I set out to look for the old Windows Task Manager. It wasn’t hard to find, but I figured I would still send up a flare so you can find it.
Editor Note: This method used to work in the Windows 8 Developer Preview, but no longer works in the recent versions of Windows 8.1
From the Windows 8 Metro Desktop, Type run and Touch / Click the Run App that appears or WIN+R.
Type: taskmgr.exe and Click / Touch OK.
Ah, there’s the familiar Windows Task Manager.
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Unfortunately, this does not appear to work in the Release Preview and the RTM. Running taskmgr.exe open the new task manager.
CTRL+Shift+Escape should still work
Nope, does not work in a n y combination…
Std Win 8 x64 RTM Pre-installed no longer contains any traces of old taskmgr…
unless manually “imported” from 7 box but then some of the performance counters may be wrong for 8 and its not preferred…
Why not use ‘process explorer’ instead; far more detailed and accurate…