In the event you miss the older design of Process Supervisor in Home windows 11, there’s excellent news – it’s nonetheless within the working system and you’ll resurrect it – if you understand the place to look. The present design was launched within the Home windows 11 22H2 replace. This Process Supervisor refresh was fairly an enormous change to the interface, and never everybody was eager on it.
Urgent the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys or opening Process Supervisor from the Begin Menu will carry up the brand new model of Process Supervisor. Nonetheless, X person @thebookisclosed discovered which you can carry up the older model of Process Supervisor by accessing the Home windows folder in your C: drive (most customers’ principal drive) and opening Process Supervisor through the app that’s positioned within the SysWOW64 folder.
Do you know which you can open Process Supervisor with out the brand new XAML/WinUI body by operating “taskmgr -d”? pic.twitter.com/iZ2ycsIDvEMarch 25, 2024
There are two easy methods to do that:
By means of File Explorer:
1. Open File Explorer out of your Begin menu.
2. Copy and paste “C:WindowsSysWOW64Taskmgr.exe” into File Explorer’s tackle bar.
By means of the Run app:
1. Open Run from the Begin menu to open a dialog field.
2. Copy and paste “C:WindowsSysWOW64Taskmgr.exe” into the Run app’s dialog field.
3. Press Enter to launch it.
Both of those ought to launch the outdated model of Process Supervisor, which you’ll pin to your Taskbar as a shortcut, or create a desktop icon to entry it extra conveniently.
What to think about earlier than firing the outdated model up
Home windows Newest factors out that it is best to ensure you select one model or the opposite, because it’s not attainable to run one whereas the opposite is already operating, so shut Process Supervisor if it’s already operating earlier than you attempt opening the outdated one. Nothing dangerous will occur, however it’ll simply present the present model of Process Supervisor you’re presently utilizing.
The newer Process Supervisor has a brand new menu sidebar that reveals extra views, however apparently, some customers discover having this further sidebar menu complicated. It has a brand new record of labels and icons, compounding some customers’ confusion when making an attempt to parse between numerous sections and processes, and looking for a selected course of. Within the newer design, there’s a Settings choices web page on this sidebar menu as properly.
The older Process Supervisor is extra minimalist, and solely has the record of processes presently operating, with the totally different sections and views laid out horizontally in tabs in direction of the highest. It additionally solely helps a lightweight theme, whereas the brand new design of Process Supervisor can be utilized in gentle or darkish mode. In the event you’re used to utilizing darkish mode like me, the older Process Supervisor will stand out.
One other function that the newer design options is Effectivity Mode, an choice within the right-click menu of any job that permits customers to handle useful resource consumption of the method. Effectivity Mode will be activated for third-party processes and this may unlock CPU assets for different duties, although this selection isn’t out there for Home windows system processes.
The brand new Process Supervisor affords some very helpful options, however it may well appear difficult to some customers, so if you wish to revert to the older view, it’s good to know you may. I hope Microsoft doesn’t completely take away this selection for customers, or enable customers to vary to the older view by making the extra sidebar menu detachable or not less than collapsible. Nonetheless, as a result of the outdated Process Supervisor is fairly hidden away, it doesn’t seem to be Microsoft is simply too eager on individuals utilizing it – so we could need to get used to the brand new look.
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