In me taskmanager reset settings on windows 10 pro. Open taskmanager and hold down ctrl alt and shift. keep holding keys, close taskmanager, still keep keys pressed and select task bar right click open taskmanager
Reddit is such a joke. They get a prolific dev that actually worked on core Windows parts and instead of embracing it the janitors sperg out about some rules and lock the thread. I'm glad he's still active on youtube.
Windows tab, open a task manager from another session or just go ctrl shift delete and run task manager. Make sure to set task manager to always be at the top, lol
Avast Anti-virus and Task Manager have an understanding as fellow all-powerful God programs. After all, viruses that Avast is powerless to stop while running are(usually) no match for Task Manager.
Some random app: **crashes** **Opens Task Manager** **crashes** Guide: Press Ctrl + Alt + Del Task Manager: **Freezes** Guide: Reopen it again within 10 seconds. Task Manager: **Does not display info** Guide: Press Ctrl + Shft + Esc Task Manager: **Doesn't respond** Guide: Run Task Manager through cmd. Task Manager: **Finally Functions** BRUH HOW MANY BACKUPS DOES THIS THING HAVE?!
I think it's funny that this guy was a "noob" when writing TM. He obviously must have been one of the most competent people at Microsoft at the time. 😆
8:11 - He means that the guys who were responsible for GDI (the graphics API for Windows) and User32 (the UI API for Windows) were just down the hall from him, so he had a lot of access to information and help with getting the UI to resize without flickering.
@@escapechar I admit that I'm splitting hairs here, but that's Not quite accurate. Win32 is the full 32-bit OS-level API (prior to the introduction of UWP). User32 and GDI32 are specific subsets which handle the user interface and Graphics. Essentially, the departments had helped guide him on how to best optimize his code.
Yes, but it helped, because so he knew how to use subroutines to get privilege access for task manager - which I guess for that program was ok, as it's the last resort before restart, so taskmgr should be able to run even when the GUI is partially unavailable.
Ai says done apps not needed suspended after macro key command press for laptops and desktops like on your Android smartphone for tdp savings and extended battery life plus cooling.
@@john-paulhunt9798 Umm... That doesn't sound like a big problem... The way you type just threw me for a loop and I'm a hobby software engineer and computer scientist. Still learning but wtf did you just write?
Another tip that came handy a bunch of times for me: If you're stuck with a full screen app/game that froze, and sometime you can't even alt-tab because the game goes back to front, you can WIN+TAB instead on w10 to create/go to a new virtual desktop. From there, your task manager will be accessible, without having the frozen app not letting you.
I love that he made Task Manager so redundant you could probably start it while being bombed,no internet, no electricity, no computer even. Task manager is that one friend that will always be by your side.
Mine is minesweeper, the teacher will give us $5/$10 to who ever can finish the largest level in shortest amount off time Pinball also have the same reward but this time u need to score high as possible in 15/20 min
@@xMysticWolf I searched the WHOLE UNIVERSE, and I still didn't find anybody saying that I don't have the right to say my opinion about a joke/something else, whether it's funny or not, and I was also calm.
@@xMysticWolf I didn't say I don't care I searched the WHOLE UNIVERSE, and I still didn't find anybody saying that I don't have the right to say my opinion about a joke/something else, whether it's funny or not, and I was also calm.
"Always on top" ... well, I know what I'm doing next. I was using the alt-tab (holding alt keeps you in tab mode, where you can see what program is highlighted in a live view), and juggling between it and the arrows/delete keys to force shut down programs that didn't want to give up screen real estate.
Don't blame me for actually believing this, but I have almost tried to buy a usb disk drive so I can play my Xbox One games on my pc lol I used to be dumb 😂
Task manager is like an angel, people only ask for minor things and he helps, but he is willing to kill himself to save something else. Task manager is golden and if MS removes it I will retaliate.
One of my favorite things about Task Manager was clicking ‘show processes from all users’ and having a dialogue box open up basically informing me that Windows didn’t know the publisher of Windows and items from Microsoft probably shouldn’t be trusted to run on my computer.
3:08 This is actually very useful for monitoring CPU or disk use when operating under a heavy load and don't want any kind of 3rd party app to do the same thing. I got alot of use out of this
Man, I long for the days when Ctrl Alt Delete was god. Back in Windows 95, if you pressed that magic combination, your computer stopped everything it was doing and listened to you, no questions asked. Nowadays, Task Manager patiently waits in line for its turn just like everything else, and you sometimes feel like you'd be better off just restarting it manually.
One of the greatest things to come from MS. Now, who wrote the automatic "repair" functions? Those have never worked - no clue why MS even bothers with them since they literally fix nothing. 🤣
@@chrishoffman4635 i can use automatic repair to check its logs and know what is causing the problem and in rare cases, it can repair mbr overwrites...
Something like that actually happened. Explorer and Taskbar were gone and restart didn't help. It was a blank screen so i shooted up the task manager and restarted explorer.exe service.
2:33 - you need to press ctrl-alt-shift WHILE STARTING the task manager. try going to start and type in task manager. click on the app while holding ctrl+alt+shift and the settings do indeed reset on windows 10 pro
the double clicking the blank space to get rid of or re add the title bar i totally knew for many years. i learned by having to figure it out when i accidentally removed it one day, heh.
9:16, Holy heck, how'd I miss that?! I knew a ton of the other stuff, but didn't know about that! I was getting so sick of having to sign out of Windows to force close the damn games when they crash. This is gonna streamline my Skyrim and Fallout super-modding so friggin' much!
If you have a secondary monitor and TM opens on the main one underneath Skyrim, you can Alt+Tab to it and then Shift+WindowsKey+LeftArrow (or rightarrow) to move it onto the other monitor - helped me a few times also :P
I've experienced that first-hand, when running an old USB cam driver under Windows 10 and something goes wrong. Task Manager cannot defeat that failure when it happens.
I started with the first personal computers and it has always been my work and hobby. Now, as a pensioner, it is still my hobby and still help many people. What I've seen now is news for me too and I'm glad to know it. Thanks Thio Joe!!
ThioJoe I love your channel. I've been a subscriber for a couple years now. You've saved my a$$ many times! lol I find your videos very helpful, and I like that you speak in layman terms, which is great for a semi-novice PC user like myself! I appreciate your honesty and integrity. It feels good knowing that I can always trust your suggestions and advice. Such qualities are so hard to find on YT these days! Thanks a bunch for the awesome content, and keep up the good work!
The "Ctrl-Shift-Alt" Combo does work (at least on my current version of Windows 10), but you either have to launch from clicking on the icon, or quickly shift from Ctrl-Shift-Esc to Ctrl-Shift-Alt when using the keyboard shortcut (holding Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Esc wont launch it at all). One easy way to check if it worked, it reverts from the detailed view to the simple view when done successfully.
I remember being in school. Which task manager was blocked for use for non administrative users. I found out that if you held ctrl , shift, and ESC before logging on it would spam the screen with error messages. After a while of filling the screen with messages if you then went to logon by pressing ctrl, alt, and delete. It would log you in, and you would have ALL administrative privileges. So was free to run CMD prompt, task manager, and see all the server folders etc. Literally gained free roam of the entire network which was insane. This was on windows xp, and was around 10-11 years ago.
Something I just noticed about the command prompt that can be opened up by pressing new task while holding down ctrl is that it launches in administrator mode and bypasses the do you want to run as administrator pop up.
honestly, your immediate gut reaction to a program that hangs should no longer be CTRL+ALT+DEL, but CTRL+SHIFT+ESC instead. Not only is it easier to reach with one hand, but this follows the behaviour of pre-Win7 task managers, which is to open the Task Manager directly, instead of opening another menu to open Task Manager.
Didn't know most of these, but in thinking about it, most make sense. I once had to write a debug app for the company I worked for, and it's a different style of programming: you assume *nothing*. If you're writing for an error state, you assume everything is broken. Some of those "work even when nothing else works" ideas were similar to what I was trying to do (but obviously not anywhere near this guy's level).
Fun fact, when I leave my computer unattended but I don't want to lock it, ie music station for a party, I will intentionally end windows explorer, no more icons, no looking through my files, no opening minimized apps, but all tasks currently running, keep running at full capacity. Then I simply use task manager to run a new explorer.exe when I need to use the system. In this circumstance it's better than system lock since average user doesn't know what explorer.exe fully does.
the funny thing is, the BSOD is windows main line of defense against hardware level errors and failures. The main reason why everyone hates it is because the first thing windows does when it cant run/load due to dead hardware is show the BSOD but in most cases, if windows ever detects that it can't run safely (overheating processors, unusable configuration settings, disabled core OS features, etc) it will just stop everything before any real damage can be done, show a error message in the form of the BSOD and shut down the system. Then you can just replace any dead parts, run the system repair or restart the computer in safe mode if needed.
Ah the good old days when developers were real developers and had to squeeze every drop out of their code, so they ran on machines with limited resources. The days when, if you had 128 MB of ram and a P2 300 MHz processor, you laughed in the face of the required/recommended specs...
I remember back in the day killing system tasks on school computers to get out of assignments (These were running 98 and NT at the time). "Woops, my computer keeps crashing.... I guess i need more time for my assignment *snickering*". Also, it was neat that the school IT team set No password on the Admin accounts. Quake, and Unreal at lunchtime was one thing that kept us from ditching class.
Thank you for the very last tip, with being able to have Task Manager always on top. In the past I've had fullscreen apps crashing quite a bit and then the screen would be fully black and I wouldn't be able to see other windows. I would use CTRL + ALT + DELETE to sign out of my user account or to open Task Manager, but I can't see it with the frozen fullscreen app in front, so I hold ALT-Tab to be able to atleast peek at Task Manager and count how many lines I have to go down to highlight my frozen fullscreen app and use Arrow keys to go down the process list and press DELETE, which is finnicky
I have Windows 10 Pro as well. If you click on "More details" Task Manager will show you all the tabs. Every time you launch Task Manager, it will remember this setting. However, if you hit CTRL-ALT-SHIFT, Task Manager will launch and revert back to the fewer details. This also resets the Always on top feature in Options. Further testing shows that any changes you make to Task Manager, i.e. adding columns, changing the interface in any way. By doing CTRL-ALT-SHIFT, resets it back to default.
Windows jokes :😂😂😂 1. Windows store : no updates pending Start screen : Installing app and doesn't opennafter clicking 2. App: Installed Me : opens app and starts using After some time : Windows store still installing the app i download and used😛😛😛
@@RandomGuy-om1vy Whatever it is I am frustrated with windows and wasted a lot of time fixing idiotic issues searching for them on youtube. Even after 2004 may update my trackpad freezes sometimes. Lost trust in windows and i am now afraid to keep my documents and in my laptop and had to backup daily due to errors
Thank you for showing us the always on top option, you don’t know how many times I have been so mad because a game would freeze and I open task manager for it to be behind the game and completely inaccessible. Always had to do the ole restart and cancel.
@@ThioJoe Thio, how do you feel lately? Just asking, because camera flickering is one of the first signs of demonic possession. I'd be worried in your place.
This man has most likely helped more people solve their day-to-day problems than any other person in human history. Imagine that impact, the hours of time and potential hazards he's saved collectively for everyone in situations where their pc would otherwise just freeze up or require a forced shutdown and lose all active processes by doing so, unsaved files, etc. He's probably saved the world billions of dollars (or whatever national currency you wanna use).
Another tip to access your task manager if it's stuck behind another application. Press CTRL + WIN + D to create a new workplace (virtual desktop) and open the task manager there with no obstructions! Press CTRL + WIN + F4 to close the work workspace once you're done. (Or CTRL + WIN + LEFT/RIGHT to navigate between them)
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Hello
In me taskmanager reset settings on windows 10 pro. Open taskmanager and hold down ctrl alt and shift. keep holding keys, close taskmanager, still keep keys pressed and select task bar right click open taskmanager
I have never liked Task Manager. It is missing a column -- when a task started. Personally like Process Hacker better gives more information.
Reddit is such a joke. They get a prolific dev that actually worked on core Windows parts and instead of embracing it the janitors sperg out about some rules and lock the thread. I'm glad he's still active on youtube.
9:30 alternatively you can just ALT + F4 1 time will onlly close your current window pres it few times and you get the option to shut down your pc
"... when a program freezes, you can't close it, you bring up your trusty task manager and it kills it, no questions asked"
Old games: No.
Windows tab, open a task manager from another session or just go ctrl shift delete and run task manager. Make sure to set task manager to always be at the top, lol
Always have 2 screens for old games, one for task manager+CMD, one for game. works unless it win't release your mouse, that's when CMD comes in.
This is why I use process hacker
@@looshroom1393 thank you for telling me about process hacker.
You're awesome!!!
SKYPE OR MICROSOFT TEAMS I CAN RELATE LOL
"If task manager can't kill a process, you have a kernel problem."
So Avast antivirus is a kernel problem...
Actually Avast does modify the kernel so that rootkits won't
Correct
Avast Anti-virus and Task Manager have an understanding as fellow all-powerful God programs. After all, viruses that Avast is powerless to stop while running are(usually) no match for Task Manager.
@@Kristibek Avast is a rootkit
also, all antivirus make the system unstable, except for the windows defender
Avast is crap now, and if you have it installed good luck getting it off without the uninstaller
This is literally the most famous man that gets no credit
He is from my home city
How about the man that created copy paste?
What about the person who invented flippin the pillow to the cold side?
nope
@@roman_dimaggio Well I am that man
Some random app: **crashes**
**Opens Task Manager**
**crashes**
Guide: Press Ctrl + Alt + Del
Task Manager: **Freezes**
Guide: Reopen it again within 10 seconds.
Task Manager: **Does not display info**
Guide: Press Ctrl + Shft + Esc
Task Manager: **Doesn't respond**
Guide: Run Task Manager through cmd.
Task Manager: **Finally Functions**
BRUH HOW MANY BACKUPS DOES THIS THING HAVE?!
Task manager will *always* succeed
All of them
Task Manager: I always finish my mission
Task manager must not fail. It is the user's final line of defense against unclosable programs.
@@wrillwastaken *laughs in power cycle*
Program: _freezes_
Me: _launches task manager_
Task Manager: _not responding_
This is so true, I don't know whether to laugh or cry
Task manager doesn't work in India.
ctrl-shift-esc ctrl-shift-esc. Goddammit why did he leave MS?
@@damyr achcha
oh look, a gd guy
Task Manager: *not responding*
Me: open a another Task Manager to close this Task manager.
LOL
At that point I try that and if it doesn’t work then I fight through the lag to open CMD and force kill the thing hanging up my system
Omae wa mu, shinderu!
*an* another (because of the vowel)
I use the task manager to destroy the task manager
When your pc can barely run games so you end the Windows explorer task in task manager
Improvise, adapt and overcome
i actually used to do that so that it wouldnt have to render the taskbar and stuff
Bruh I don't even use that
lmao
Did that on my old laptop all the time
Easier solution: commit lite or classic theme (windows 10 has a lite version of it's theme)
I think it's funny that this guy was a "noob" when writing TM. He obviously must have been one of the most competent people at Microsoft at the time. 😆
The task manager is way more pReCiOuS and magical than I thought it was.
It keeps my pc aliv- wait hold up gotta close down portal 2
Classic youtube user cringing their comments up with month-later edits
@@HazFrostYT clearly nobody asked you to be original or regrow your dead braincells after they've burned out from all that intense thinkimg
CoolCraftGG he’s right though 😔
Thanks, you ruined a normal comment.
When you open task manger and it says:
“Task manger not responding”
OH HELL NO
@@vuraniute9571 Task Manager: *not responding again*
@@DamienPup ctrl + shift * esc
@@wrillwastaken still not respondin
ah yes, my favourite task *manger*
@@cycrothelargeplanet **press ctrl + shift + esc again**
8:11 - He means that the guys who were responsible for GDI (the graphics API for Windows) and User32 (the UI API for Windows) were just down the hall from him, so he had a lot of access to information and help with getting the UI to resize without flickering.
Yeah basically Win32
@@escapechar I admit that I'm splitting hairs here, but that's Not quite accurate. Win32 is the full 32-bit OS-level API (prior to the introduction of UWP). User32 and GDI32 are specific subsets which handle the user interface and Graphics.
Essentially, the departments had helped guide him on how to best optimize his code.
Yes, but it helped, because so he knew how to use subroutines to get privilege access for task manager - which I guess for that program was ok, as it's the last resort before restart, so taskmgr should be able to run even when the GUI is partially unavailable.
Thanos: I will kill all with a snap.
Task manager: Hold my kernal
Ai says done apps not needed suspended after macro key command press for laptops and desktops like on your Android smartphone for tdp savings and extended battery life plus cooling.
@@john-paulhunt9798 Umm... That doesn't sound like a big problem... The way you type just threw me for a loop and I'm a hobby software engineer and computer scientist. Still learning but wtf did you just write?
@@Kilogya grammar spelling words structure ai corrections I need for this. Watches the rich and famous say eff off and die mistake.
r/ihadastroke
@@sammy709 agreed.
Program: Crashes
Noobs: Uses task manager to stop the program
Gods: *Waits for program to respond*
Hol up
@StringerNews1 wait a minute
ultra legends: restarts windows explorer
If it crashes, it closes. If it freezes, it will ask you to quit it or wait for it to finish.
True
"I very rarely see task manager freeze"
My old A̶s̶s̶ shit pc: allow me to introduce myself
Please change it I dont like the a word
@@juubilo1509 yes I'm sirious thank you for notice that me name
@@siriousgamerrr no
Our elementary school's PCs be like
every GODDAMN TIME
Another tip that came handy a bunch of times for me:
If you're stuck with a full screen app/game that froze, and sometime you can't even alt-tab because the game goes back to front, you can WIN+TAB instead on w10 to create/go to a new virtual desktop. From there, your task manager will be accessible, without having the frozen app not letting you.
In that case I usually resort to Winlogon screen by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del and running Task Manager from there.
I love that he made Task Manager so redundant you could probably start it while being bombed,no internet, no electricity, no computer even. Task manager is that one friend that will always be by your side.
as long as you got a twig and a dead bug you can run Task Manager
@@numbersix9468 what if I only have the dead bug? Will this still work without a twig?!
@@JayDeeFrm7400you can use a finger as a substitute
"I doubt anyone is still supporting MS-Dos."
DOSBox: *exists*
not really
DOS is still in core of new NT kernels, it's just not exposed that much anymore. Every shell windows wrote still exists for backward compability.
Use Yori
he did say i doubt not im sure
Space cadet pinball? That dude started my gaming addiction!
He wrote a port, a smaller version to come with windows. The full game has more
Mine is minesweeper, the teacher will give us $5/$10 to who ever can finish the largest level in shortest amount off time
Pinball also have the same reward but this time u need to score high as possible in 15/20 min
Third party program exists
Task manager: your free trial of running has expired
The monster chasing you in a horror movie be like:
Your free trial of running has expired
Game: *freezes*
Me: *opens Task Manager*
Game: Why do I hear boss music?
Sorry, not funny!
@@deadchannel5933 humour is subjective. Thank you for taking the time out your day to comment 🙂 have a good day
@@xMysticWolf
I searched the WHOLE UNIVERSE, and I still didn't find anybody saying that I don't have the right to say my opinion about a joke/something else, whether it's funny or not, and I was also calm.
@@deadchannel5933 I mean, you do care though since you keep using your time and energy to respond 😂 peace bro
@@xMysticWolf I didn't say I don't care
I searched the WHOLE UNIVERSE, and I still didn't find anybody saying that I don't have the right to say my opinion about a joke/something else, whether it's funny or not, and I was also calm.
Teacher- Which was the most powerful software of Windows ?
Me- Taskmanager
Haha
cmd.exe
explorer.exe
Just closed my life with this thing
CTRL ALT DEL YOUR LIFE
Lmao, I close Minecraft with Task Manager
Nice job! You will have to start all over again
Closes task manager with task manager because task manager joined the wrong side
@@walksanator 😂😂😂
@@yeppiidev Wym minecraft is designed to save data even when you force close it which is thanks to java.
r/slurp
"Always on top" ... well, I know what I'm doing next. I was using the alt-tab (holding alt keeps you in tab mode, where you can see what program is highlighted in a live view), and juggling between it and the arrows/delete keys to force shut down programs that didn't want to give up screen real estate.
Big brain
I'm still scared of watching his videos because I almost ended up ruining my router to get SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEED. glad he's making serious videos aswell.
Same. My father ruined 8 new CD and the router years ago as he didn't knew it was a prank
This man really got me to put my hdmi cable in the freezer to “increase the resolution” of my display 😳😤
The worst thing is that you did it apparently
Don't blame me for actually believing this, but I have almost tried to buy a usb disk drive so I can play my Xbox One games on my pc lol
I used to be dumb 😂
@@JooshFX there are programs that can do this. I did it with skyrim on the 360.
@@roboslobonator yea ik, but I mean from the disk itself.
Wait. Did I misunderstand what it means when your display freezes? 😁
Task manager is like an angel, people only ask for minor things and he helps, but he is willing to kill himself to save something else. Task manager is golden and if MS removes it I will retaliate.
One of my favorite things about Task Manager was clicking ‘show processes from all users’ and having a dialogue box open up basically informing me that Windows didn’t know the publisher of Windows and items from Microsoft probably shouldn’t be trusted to run on my computer.
3:08 This is actually very useful for monitoring CPU or disk use when operating under a heavy load and don't want any kind of 3rd party app to do the same thing. I got alot of use out of this
"Wrote it back in like...the 90's". Quality journalism. A+
In my school, when a program freezes, I bring up task manager and task manager freezes too. Very nice.
The Windows 10 version seems to be much less resource-efficient.
Man, I long for the days when Ctrl Alt Delete was god. Back in Windows 95, if you pressed that magic combination, your computer stopped everything it was doing and listened to you, no questions asked. Nowadays, Task Manager patiently waits in line for its turn just like everything else, and you sometimes feel like you'd be better off just restarting it manually.
One of the greatest things to come from MS.
Now, who wrote the automatic "repair" functions? Those have never worked - no clue why MS even bothers with them since they literally fix nothing. 🤣
It always makes things worse and are in the way of accessing the real tools needed for manual repair. 😂
Hey! automatic repair solves my problem!
@@ronaldddoooo one.
🤣
@@chrishoffman4635 i can use automatic repair to check its logs and know what is causing the problem and in rare cases, it can repair mbr overwrites...
@@ronaldddoooo you are thinking of the wrong one. I am referring to the dialog box where it tries to "fix" the problem for you.
Something like that actually happened. Explorer and Taskbar were gone and restart didn't help. It was a blank screen so i shooted up the task manager and restarted explorer.exe service.
I only knew a few of these, this is helpful
2:33 - you need to press ctrl-alt-shift WHILE STARTING the task manager.
try going to start and type in task manager.
click on the app while holding ctrl+alt+shift and the settings do indeed reset on windows 10 pro
This man wrote my childhood:
Restarting explorer on my shitty PC and playing space cadet pinball
he wrote mine too (he’s my dad)
I always used the "Show File Location" feature to find and remove manually some adwares when I can find them in the task manager. Really helped a lot
the double clicking the blank space to get rid of or re add the title bar i totally knew for many years. i learned by having to figure it out when i accidentally removed it one day, heh.
Learning about the always on top mode for task manager is one of the greatest things that this channel has taught me. Thank you.
"Kills it, no questions asked"
I think you just revealed to everyone that you're still on windows 98.
This information should be printed in a gold book! Having all this tips and info from the original guy developer is precious!
9:16, Holy heck, how'd I miss that?! I knew a ton of the other stuff, but didn't know about that!
I was getting so sick of having to sign out of Windows to force close the damn games when they crash.
This is gonna streamline my Skyrim and Fallout super-modding so friggin' much!
If you have a secondary monitor and TM opens on the main one underneath Skyrim, you can Alt+Tab to it and then Shift+WindowsKey+LeftArrow (or rightarrow) to move it onto the other monitor - helped me a few times also :P
maybe you didn't know because it doesn't work
This man deserves so much more credibility. Gonna support his channel right now!😤
Having had a really low end device i learned most of this stuff the hard way
quick tip: if you double click the graph at perfomance tab, task manager will become small mode (only graphs displayed)
Some of this I knew but the majority I did not. So its very interesting to know that so much more can be done with task manager. Thanks ThioJoe
Just tried out the CTRL ALT Shift method and it worked for me, windows embedded 8.1 industry enterprise
I use Windows 8.1 Embedded POSReady Industry Ultimate Enterprise Professional Business Edition. 😝
06:14 No, it means a bug in the kernel. Running "sfc /scannow" won't do anything to help that.
my guess is that sfc /scannow won’t do anything (at least for me)
I've experienced that first-hand, when running an old USB cam driver under Windows 10 and something goes wrong. Task Manager cannot defeat that failure when it happens.
Or a driver issue.
@@nulano drivers are just kernel modules
I started with the first personal computers and it has always been my work and hobby. Now, as a pensioner, it is still my hobby and still help many people. What I've seen now is news for me too and I'm glad to know it. Thanks Thio Joe!!
thanks for this info.
Lol
ThioJoe I love your channel. I've been a subscriber for a couple years now. You've saved my a$$ many times! lol I find your videos very helpful, and I like that you speak in layman terms, which is great for a semi-novice PC user like myself! I appreciate your honesty and integrity. It feels good knowing that I can always trust your suggestions and advice. Such qualities are so hard to find on YT these days! Thanks a bunch for the awesome content, and keep up the good work!
Will the FBI come to my house if I use these secrets?
😂😂⚰️⚰️
Yes
The "Ctrl-Shift-Alt" Combo does work (at least on my current version of Windows 10), but you either have to launch from clicking on the icon, or quickly shift from Ctrl-Shift-Esc to Ctrl-Shift-Alt when using the keyboard shortcut (holding Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Esc wont launch it at all).
One easy way to check if it worked, it reverts from the detailed view to the simple view when done successfully.
I always use that when an application has stopped working.
Thanks for that 😅
For the last tip, THANK YOU!!! It was so annoying having task manager on top of all the other windows, I disabled it now! XD
Task Manager: _Not Responding_
Me: So you have chosen .... *APOCALYPSE!*
Glad to see this guy isn’t making stupid vids anymore, never forget him breaking my new pc few years ago with his old troll videos
Me :Opens task manager
Task Manager: I aint lettin' u in!
OS: Your PC Ran into a problem and it needs to restart
Me again: BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH AAAAAA
Me : Opens task manager to check RAM Usage
Task manager : I USED 100 PERCENT RAM
ME : DARRRN YOU TASK MANAGER
I remember being in school. Which task manager was blocked for use for non administrative users. I found out that if you held ctrl , shift, and ESC before logging on it would spam the screen with error messages. After a while of filling the screen with messages if you then went to logon by pressing ctrl, alt, and delete. It would log you in, and you would have ALL administrative privileges. So was free to run CMD prompt, task manager, and see all the server folders etc. Literally gained free roam of the entire network which was insane. This was on windows xp, and was around 10-11 years ago.
Task Manager: *Not Responding*
Me: *You've become the very thing you swore to destroy!*
Something I just noticed about the command prompt that can be opened up by pressing new task while holding down ctrl is that it launches in administrator mode and bypasses the do you want to run as administrator pop up.
Opens Task Manager to kill a not responding program.
Task Manager Freezes.
Me: You have become the very thing you swore to destroy.
honestly, your immediate gut reaction to a program that hangs should no longer be CTRL+ALT+DEL, but CTRL+SHIFT+ESC instead. Not only is it easier to reach with one hand, but this follows the behaviour of pre-Win7 task managers, which is to open the Task Manager directly, instead of opening another menu to open Task Manager.
Program: freezes
Task manager: So you have chosen death
Didn't know most of these, but in thinking about it, most make sense. I once had to write a debug app for the company I worked for, and it's a different style of programming: you assume *nothing*. If you're writing for an error state, you assume everything is broken. Some of those "work even when nothing else works" ideas were similar to what I was trying to do (but obviously not anywhere near this guy's level).
ThioJoe more like ThlushThaToilet
Great info. I didn't know about rearranging the columns and turning some off and some on. Thanks.
Thanks for the spoon feeding for all of us too lazy to read. 🤣
That last tip was the most helpful of all! Thanks :)
Thio Joe: *Posts Video*
Everyone: *stop whatever they're doing, watch Thio Joe's video.*
Always on top... I can't say how many times I have needed this, thank you for pointing that out!
Just stop, drop, and open task manager!
Fun fact, when I leave my computer unattended but I don't want to lock it, ie music station for a party, I will intentionally end windows explorer, no more icons, no looking through my files, no opening minimized apps, but all tasks currently running, keep running at full capacity. Then I simply use task manager to run a new explorer.exe when I need to use the system. In this circumstance it's better than system lock since average user doesn't know what explorer.exe fully does.
dang i just saw u switched to real topics
lol i remembered trying to double my ram a few years ago
That ram video was the first of his videos I watched lol. I was like..."Whatta heck is he talking about?" I freaking loved it lol.
@@AgustinD1000 lol
I think this was my most favorite out of all so far. Great info, humor, and more.
To all Linux fanboys who are arriving soon: The "system monitor" is worse than the task manager"
Task manager > System monitor
Bernardo Negri i agree and I have used Linux before, I wish task manager had a Linux version
Yeah that’s one of the things I don’t like about GNU/Linux
That is quite possibly the nerdiest smack talk ever
In Linux we don't need task manager, system is stable - that's why.
@@uniqjohni1976 😂😂 i agree (team deepin)
the funny thing is, the BSOD is windows main line of defense against hardware level errors and failures. The main reason why everyone hates it is because the first thing windows does when it cant run/load due to dead hardware is show the BSOD but in most cases, if windows ever detects that it can't run safely (overheating processors, unusable configuration settings, disabled core OS features, etc) it will just stop everything before any real damage can be done, show a error message in the form of the BSOD and shut down the system. Then you can just replace any dead parts, run the system repair or restart the computer in safe mode if needed.
Ah the good old days when developers were real developers and had to squeeze every drop out of their code, so they ran on machines with limited resources.
The days when, if you had 128 MB of ram and a P2 300 MHz processor, you laughed in the face of the required/recommended specs...
So true. Just do it the old fashion way and optimise your code before releasing bullshit.
I remember back in the day killing system tasks on school computers to get out of assignments (These were running 98 and NT at the time). "Woops, my computer keeps crashing.... I guess i need more time for my assignment *snickering*". Also, it was neat that the school IT team set No password on the Admin accounts. Quake, and Unreal at lunchtime was one thing that kept us from ditching class.
2:56 *Everything is based on XP*
Love these tips, final tip - if you need to go deeper, sysinternals Process Explorer is way better.
All of that simply meant:
It is so powerful that you can use Task Manager to kill itself.
Yeah, sometimes I do that lol
Does it break anything?
Thanks for the always on top tip. I always end up using tabs and other shortcuts to get me going. Still works but it is harder than your way. Thanks
i close task manager with task manager
Thank you for the very last tip, with being able to have Task Manager always on top. In the past I've had fullscreen apps crashing quite a bit and then the screen would be fully black and I wouldn't be able to see other windows.
I would use CTRL + ALT + DELETE to sign out of my user account or to open Task Manager, but I can't see it with the frozen fullscreen app in front, so I hold ALT-Tab to be able to atleast peek at Task Manager and count how many lines I have to go down to highlight my frozen fullscreen app and use Arrow keys to go down the process list and press DELETE, which is finnicky
hahaha I did the same
*When you're early , you focus on comments* 😂
I have Windows 10 Pro as well. If you click on "More details" Task Manager will show you all the tabs. Every time you launch Task Manager, it will remember this setting. However, if you hit CTRL-ALT-SHIFT, Task Manager will launch and revert back to the fewer details. This also resets the Always on top feature in Options. Further testing shows that any changes you make to Task Manager, i.e. adding columns, changing the interface in any way. By doing CTRL-ALT-SHIFT, resets it back to default.
Windows jokes :😂😂😂
1.
Windows store : no updates pending
Start screen : Installing app and doesn't opennafter clicking
2.
App: Installed
Me : opens app and starts using
After some time : Windows store still installing the app i download and used😛😛😛
LoL
Update to 2004, even more optimised than MacOS. Trust me.
@@RandomGuy-om1vy Whatever it is I am frustrated with windows and wasted a lot of time fixing idiotic issues searching for them on youtube. Even after 2004 may update my trackpad freezes sometimes. Lost trust in windows and i am now afraid to keep my documents and in my laptop and had to backup daily due to errors
@@leisuretalks Trackpad freezes? Sounds like a slow drive issue
I respect you for sticking with the same type of videos still
Can you compare browsers?
Why we all know internet explorer is the best
The last tip is exactly what I need those times that the full screen does not allow to see the TM. Thanks!!
"If you have a kernel problem you might have to run a sfc /scannow" nice one...
Thank you for showing us the always on top option, you don’t know how many times I have been so mad because a game would freeze and I open task manager for it to be behind the game and completely inaccessible. Always had to do the ole restart and cancel.
1:56 Camera quality
Yea idk
@@ThioJoe oh
@@ThioJoe Thio, how do you feel lately? Just asking, because camera flickering is one of the first signs of demonic possession. I'd be worried in your place.
This man has most likely helped more people solve their day-to-day problems than any other person in human history. Imagine that impact, the hours of time and potential hazards he's saved collectively for everyone in situations where their pc would otherwise just freeze up or require a forced shutdown and lose all active processes by doing so, unsaved files, etc. He's probably saved the world billions of dollars (or whatever national currency you wanna use).
When I open my task manager it uses 95% of my cpu... lol
Another tip to access your task manager if it's stuck behind another application.
Press CTRL + WIN + D to create a new workplace (virtual desktop) and open the task manager there with no obstructions!
Press CTRL + WIN + F4 to close the work workspace once you're done. (Or CTRL + WIN + LEFT/RIGHT to navigate between them)
My task manager is more assuring and trustworthy than my girl :-)
o.O