Better way to open Windows Task Manager???

[iONik]

I'm looking for a better way to open Windows XP Windows task manager. The ctrl-alt-del is too cumbersome requireing two hands and for me to remove one hand from the mouse. I'd like a shortcut in the on the desktop or quicklaunchbar.

Is this possible??

Thanks

[BC_Programmer]

It sure is! All you need to do, is create a shortcut on your desktop; point it to taskmgr.exe

Then; it you would like it in your quick-launch bar, you can simply drag it there. Quick and painless!

[ChrisXPPro]

Plus too - add the shortcut to start up folder and it'll come up at boot if you want it handy.

I run a very shrunk TM tucked at top corner of my 2nd monitor - just to keep an eye on CPU activity - and it can always stay minimized anyways if need be.

[iONik]

Now that you describe the "How-To" I now think how silly I was not to have known. Every time I invoke task manager with ctrl-alt-del, taskmgr.exe shows up in the list! Duh! brain-gas...

Thanks for the reply.

I managed to find the exe in:

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C:\WINDOWS\System32
For some reason, though, find files/folders did not pick it up. Is there a reason for this? ....and a fix!!

Thanks

[ALAN_BR]

I always right click on the task bar, then select Task Manger (second from the bottom

Regards
Alan

[iONik]

I always right click on the task bar, then select Task Manger (second from the bottom

Regards
Alan

An already simple solution without any work. Nice!

[Broni]

For some reason, though, find files/folders did not pick it up. Is there a reason for this? ....and a fix!!

No fix. This is how crappy Windows search is.
I use SuperFinder (free): http://freewarewiki.com/SuperFinder. It installs under right click menu.

[BC_Programmer]

I used to use a program I made when I first started using XP, I HATED... Hate, actually, the search interface used by Explorer aww, look at the cute little puppy! I want to find files darn it! annoying to navigate.

Anyway- so as a demonstration of my File Handling Library I wrote in Visual Basic, I duplicated the Find Tool from Win98 (the interface and so forth)

it worked GREAT; but there were incompatibilities with the code and XP; mostly oriented towards my extraction of file icons and alpha channels; other then that it worked great.

But; my flash drive failed, and I accidentally sent a CD RW drives BIOS flash to the hard drive I was using to store data; strangely reduced it's total capacity by 2GB (from only 4GB) and made it's contents unreadable.

VERY bad point in my coding history.

And that is why I can't use it anymore, it's almost as if it never existed...

I rewrote, or am rewriting the libraries I lost, and then my major apps; this time I get to rearchitecture them to try to solve problems I had coding them before.


wow.

all that about a find tool.

[iONik]

For some reason, though, find files/folders did not pick it up. Is there a reason for this? ....and a fix!!

No fix. This is how crappy Windows search is.
I use SuperFinder (free): http://freewarewiki.com/SuperFinder. It installs under right click menu.

SuperFinder did locate the taskmgr.exe file and looks like a nice program, however, if failed to list the three partitions of my hard drive as default search locations.

[iONik]

I used to use a program I made when I first started using XP, I HATED... Hate, actually, the search interface used by Explorer aww, look at the cute little puppy! I want to find files darn it! annoying to navigate.

Anyway- so as a demonstration of my File Handling Library I wrote in Visual Basic, I duplicated the Find Tool from Win98 (the interface and so forth)

it worked GREAT; but there were incompatibilities with the code and XP; mostly oriented towards my extraction of file icons and alpha channels; other then that it worked great.

But; my flash drive failed, and I accidentally sent a CD RW drives BIOS flash to the hard drive I was using to store data; strangely reduced it's total capacity by 2GB (from only 4GB) and made it's contents unreadable.

VERY bad point in my coding history.

And that is why I can't use it anymore, it's almost as if it never existed...

I rewrote, or am rewriting the libraries I lost, and then my major apps; this time I get to rearchitecture them to try to solve problems I had coding them before.


wow.

all that about a find tool.

Yes, ALL THAT ABOUT A FIND TOOL.  But I have to admit, I did read it all and enjoyed the story.

Just one thing....don't ask me to be a beta-tester with the new code you write!!!!! I already have $1,000.00
of a dead HDD I need to save up for in order to retrieve the data.

[Broni]

SuperFinder did locate the taskmgr.exe

Make sure, under Advanced tab, all 4 boxes are checkmarked.

if failed to list the three partitions of my hard drive as default search locations

It'll search one partition at a time.
Right click on any partition, and you'll find SuperFinder option there.