Plummer claimed: "There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill – it will even escalate privilege and (if you have it) enable debug privilege to attach to and kill apps that way if needed. Another widely unknown feature is the ability to display additional columns, letting you dive into different types of working set for memory usage, and see details like I/O reads and writes. File - Run new task is the option for this. This requests a "secret code" from the existing instance, and if not received, starts another one and this works to launch the utility even "if the Shell/Explorer is dead".Īccording to Plummer, many users do not appreciate the full capabilities of his utility, which can be used to launch applications without using the Shell (a life-saver in some circumstances). "If Task Manager ever hangs or crashes, start another by pressing ctrl-shift-esc," he said.
It sounds like a relaxed arrangement, and Task Manager had similar origins. In his spare time, he developed a utility called VisualZIP, which lets you view compressed Zip files like folders, and sold it as shareware before it was picked up by Microsoft for integration into Windows. Plummer worked on Double Space, which increased available disk-space in MS-DOS. It was under 100K for the exe and never flashed or crashed, that was my thing! He talked about the challenges of "coding for a billion machines", saying: "It's like you're building one bull to be released into an infinite number of china shops." The Microsoft developer who wrote Task Manager, along with other utilities and games, has popped up to "write this stuff down before I forget it all".Ī post on Reddit goes into detail about the tool, familiar to every Windows expert, which if you are lucky lets you terminate errant applications or processes, as well as providing some handy stats on how your PC is or is not performing.ĭave Plummer, or davepl, "started in MS-DOS in 1993 and spent a little more than a decade at Microsoft, leaving after Server 2003", he told the University of Regina.
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