Windows 8's new Task Manager has been redesigned to be more user-friendly for both power users and casual users.
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Microsoft has unveiled the improvements they have made and will continue to make to the new Task Manager for Windows 8. So what's new? Well, starting with Windows 8, there's no more dizzying flood of strange names like splwow64.exe or stacsv64.exe; no more endless and unsorted processes. Now when you launch the Task Manager in the new Windows 8, you'll only see the applications currently running on your system. This makes it much easier to figure out which program isn't responding, and removing the offending program is as simple as selecting the program and clicking "End Task" – the new Task Manager's interface is easy to use even for casual users.
But there will always come a time when you need to dig deeper into the process to fix something that is clogging up the system. In that case, you can click on More details to enter the “advanced mode” and view all the processes with much more details. And not only are they listed there, Microsoft has grouped all the related processes together, making it easier to identify each application used on a system. Also, they have now given them names that we can all understand and that also gives you a clue as to what each process does. If you need more information, that's no problem, just right-click on the process and click Search the Web.
A killer feature of the new Task Manager is the heatmaps: the applications, processes and windows that are using your system resources change their color. This way you can easily find the program that is causing problems and close it immediately.
