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Task Manager's Experience can be improved...

Submitted by Jalaj on March 11, 2009 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Usability

When i opened task manager to view system resource usage, by default its icon was hidden. In vista, I generally used to minimize it's windows so that i can see the real time cpu usage in its icon in system tray....but now by deaufalt the icon is hidden. So what would be wonderful is, if the real time graph of cpu usage can be shown in the Taskbar itself utilizing the new concept introduced in windows 7 where taskbar buttons itself act like system tray icons displaying usefull informartion. like copying..or messenger status..etc.

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Discussion (15 comments)

Indrek wrote on March 11, 2009, 5:21am

Great idea. Those that don't like it can set Task Manager to "Hide when minimized".

+1

longzheng wrote on March 11, 2009, 5:44am

Making use of the progress bar functionality to display CPU usage is a very smart idea indeed!

.Chris wrote on March 11, 2009, 6:14am

Excellent idea!

pmbAustin wrote on March 11, 2009, 7:06am

Well... there is the CPU Utilization gadget, which works well for this sort of thing...

.Chris wrote on March 11, 2009, 7:28am

That gadget doesnt work half the time. and thats not the point here, the point in, Microsoft has invested so much in this new taskbar, why not take it one step further and integrate the task manager functionality in to the taskbar, may be be closer to these mock ups on that youtube video (and no, not the crappy one with the old western song and that hip hop song, )

semyer wrote on March 11, 2009, 7:29am

Great

xombie wrote on March 11, 2009, 10:42am

Can't hurt. +1

litemininyuszika wrote on March 11, 2009, 12:51pm

+1!
Yes, and if 'Hide when minimized' option is checked, it should have a new icon. It's very old.

ApceH wrote on March 12, 2009, 6:06am

Yes. But This also applies to other applications.
Perhaps not provide for such a compartment of the icons in the 7-style.
For example I placed my TaskBar on left side (1050px), and I don't want to have so large status icons...

rafasolbr wrote on March 13, 2009, 11:27pm

Will be quite useful for me! +1
Can be used in all applications/operations that you need to wait some time, because you can use other progams and see what's happening, in a visual way, not percent numbers or estimatives (all estimatives are bad and imprecise)
[sorry for my bad english!]

JJohnson wrote on March 17, 2009, 2:03pm

I would agree. A graph with a progressing up/down memory usage monitor on the taskbar would be great at-a-glance functionality.

nyp wrote on March 17, 2009, 2:10pm

@.Chris - You mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ifQvQCO7Y

.Chris wrote on March 17, 2009, 3:34pm

Not quite

and I know for a face that video was speed up a little, I've been saying that for a long time now

sushovande wrote on March 21, 2010, 5:15pm

demoted. I think having a non-distracting taskbar is high on my priority list.

xpclient wrote on August 27, 2010, 5:07pm

@Jalaj, if you drag the Task Manager icon once out of the area where it consolidates/hides the tray icons, it won't go back there automatically. Next time you open it, it will be near the system date. Why have a distracting large icon on the taskbar when the little icon does the trick?

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