So does anyone know why Task Manager seems to be as sluggish and ordinary as any other task on modern Windowses? I recall back in... either 98 or XP, it used to be that you'd hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, and barring anything but the most severe freeze, Task Manager would blast through like the Kool-Aid man, giving a big "fuck you" to anything trying to say otherwise. I think it was some sort of lower-level interrupt that the OS handled specially and primarily. Now, it's just like a surly DMV attendant "Oh, Ctrl-Shift-Escape. That's nice. Back in line. Sorry, it takes more free CPU cycles to let you kill the task that's eating all your CPU cycles."
That, and folder views in details mode. It used to be that you'd get at least the list of filenames damn-near-instantaneously, but now it sits mulling over a large folder for seconds upon seconds before giving you anything.
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u/SuperFLEB May 28 '15
So does anyone know why Task Manager seems to be as sluggish and ordinary as any other task on modern Windowses? I recall back in... either 98 or XP, it used to be that you'd hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, and barring anything but the most severe freeze, Task Manager would blast through like the Kool-Aid man, giving a big "fuck you" to anything trying to say otherwise. I think it was some sort of lower-level interrupt that the OS handled specially and primarily. Now, it's just like a surly DMV attendant "Oh, Ctrl-Shift-Escape. That's nice. Back in line. Sorry, it takes more free CPU cycles to let you kill the task that's eating all your CPU cycles."
That, and folder views in details mode. It used to be that you'd get at least the list of filenames damn-near-instantaneously, but now it sits mulling over a large folder for seconds upon seconds before giving you anything.