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The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

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Re: The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

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Post by tavavex »

ndiddy wrote: post #15
DetroitThrow wrote: post #7

Wow, thought the guy would be a MSFT OG but this looks like it sucks? Vibed, closed source, paid extensions.. Why on earth would anyone use this?

He kind of fell off. He left Microsoft to found a scam company called "SoftwareOnline.com" that used ads to trick people into downloading fake anti-virus software. The software didn't do anything besides show the user nag messages about fictional security threats that could only be addressed by buying the full version, and could not be fully uninstalled. See https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-…

Being the Task Manager Guy became his whole brand. Any time he's brought up, the Task Manager topic is sure to follow. No wonder he's doing more Task Managers. It's so pervasive it's kind of funny.

Re: The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

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Post by iKlsR »

jordand wrote: post #14

For working with processes and software development on Windows, this replacement looks useless. I use Sysinternals Process Explorer daily at work, and that'll continue being immensely useful.

Checkout https://taskslinger.net/ instead, replaced my default with this for a few months now

Re: The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

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Post by jordand »

iKlsR wrote: post #42
jordand wrote: post #14

For working with processes and software development on Windows, this replacement looks useless. I use Sysinternals Process Explorer daily at work, and that'll continue being immensely useful.

Checkout https://taskslinger.net/ instead, replaced my default with this for a few months now

Then you've been ripped off as Sysinternals Process Explorer is essentially the same thing but free

Re: The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

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Post by kyleee »

walrus01 wrote: post #30
xattt wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn’t even have a photo of Peter Norton with folder arms.

Best we can do is neon vector art of John McAfee holding a crack pipe

RIP in peace John. Is there a burial site in Belize or somewhere else the public can visit?

Re: The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

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Post by iKlsR »

jordand wrote: post #43
iKlsR wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Checkout https://taskslinger.net/ instead, replaced my default with this for a few months now

Then you've been ripped off as Sysinternals Process Explorer is essentially the same thing but free

Ripped off with using a free tool to do basic task management and get better viz than default TM? To each their own, I've used SPE and I much prefer TS for my simple needs.

Re: The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

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Post by taiiat »

jordand wrote: post #14

For working with processes and software development on Windows, this replacement looks useless. I use Sysinternals Process Explorer daily at work, and that'll continue being immensely useful.

You might find some interest in System Informer, a sort of spiritual successor to Process Explorer!

Re: The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

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Post by dundarious »

pivo wrote: post #37
dundarious wrote: post #31

I don't use Windows at the moment, but have heard good things about this alternative, which is "Handmade" affiliated: https://taskslinger.net/

Looks like it supports macOS and Linux as well.

But TaskSlinger is not.

Re: The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

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Post by ntstatusquo »

john_strinlai wrote: post #16

"Every core, honestly", "Not just used. Accounted for.", "More signal. Less hunting.", "Your machine. Your phosphor." anyways, after scrolling through all of that stuff, it is not clear to me what the benefit of using this over normal task manager (or sysinternals tools) is, other than themes i guess? perhaps it is better than whatever the native task management program is on mac? "lots of words. not much substance".

Nothing wrong with using AI for software development, but your product landing page being chock full of LLM-isms is an honest signal about how much care was put into this project.

Also, it somehow, bafflingly, against all odds, manages to use 60% more memory and 3x as much CPU as the underwhelming XAML task manager that comes with windows. How about we figure out how to use fewer resources, rather than way more resources, than the already unreasonably inefficient thing that Microsoft ships?

Also, I find it funny that this TMOG thing seems to apply a special rule such that its own process does not appear in the dashboards by default.

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