When you miss the older design of Activity Supervisor in Home windows 11, there’s excellent news – it’s nonetheless within the working system and you’ll resurrect it – if you recognize the place to look. The present design was launched within the Home windows 11 22H2 replace. This Activity Supervisor refresh was fairly an enormous change to the interface, and never everybody was eager on it.
Urgent the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys or opening Activity Supervisor from the Begin Menu will carry up the brand new model of Activity Supervisor. Nevertheless, X user @thebookisclosed found you could carry up the older model of Activity Supervisor by accessing the Home windows folder in your C: drive (most customers’ primary drive) and opening Activity Supervisor by way of the app that’s situated within the SysWOW64 folder.
Do you know you could open Activity Supervisor with out the brand new XAML/WinUI body by operating “taskmgr -d”? pic.twitter.com/iZ2ycsIDvEMarch 25, 2024
There are two easy methods to do that:
By means of File Explorer:
1. Open File Explorer out of your Begin menu.
2. Copy and paste “C:WindowsSysWOW64Taskmgr.exe” into File Explorer’s deal with bar.
By means of the Run app:
1. Open Run from the Begin menu to open a dialog field.
2. Copy and paste “C:WindowsSysWOW64Taskmgr.exe” into the Run app’s dialog field.
3. Press Enter to launch it.
Both of those ought to launch the outdated model of Activity Supervisor, which you’ll pin to your Taskbar as a shortcut, or create a desktop icon to entry it extra conveniently.
What to contemplate earlier than firing the outdated model up
Home windows Newest factors out that it’s best to ensure you select one model or the opposite, because it’s not doable to run one whereas the opposite is already operating, so shut Activity Supervisor if it’s already operating earlier than you attempt opening the outdated one. Nothing dangerous will occur, however it’ll simply present the present model of Activity Supervisor you’re presently utilizing.
The newer Activity Supervisor has a brand new menu sidebar that exhibits extra views, however apparently, some customers discover having this further sidebar menu complicated. It has a brand new record of labels and icons, compounding some customers’ confusion when making an attempt to parse between numerous sections and processes, and looking for a particular course of. Within the newer design, there’s a Settings choices web page on this sidebar menu as nicely.
The older Activity Supervisor is extra minimalist, and solely has the record of processes presently operating, with the completely different sections and views laid out horizontally in tabs in direction of the highest. It additionally solely helps a lightweight theme, whereas the brand new design of Activity Supervisor can be utilized in mild or darkish mode. When you’re used to utilizing darkish mode like me, the older Activity Supervisor will stand out.
One other function that the newer design options is Effectivity Mode, an choice within the right-click menu of any process that enables customers to handle useful resource consumption of the method. Effectivity Mode could be activated for third-party processes and this will release CPU sources for different duties, although this selection isn’t out there for Home windows system processes.
The brand new Activity Supervisor presents some very helpful options, however it might probably appear difficult to some customers, so if you wish to revert to the older view, it’s good to know you may. I hope Microsoft doesn’t completely take away this selection for customers, or enable customers to vary to the older view by making the extra sidebar menu detachable or not less than collapsible. Nevertheless, as a result of the outdated Activity Supervisor is fairly hidden away, it doesn’t appear to be Microsoft is simply too eager on folks utilizing it – so we could should get used to the brand new look.
