windows task manager

Windows Task Manager’s CPU meter has always been less of a live feed than a short-term memory test, and that distinction matters more on modern PCs than it did on the beige-box machines of the 1990s. Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, who wrote the original Task Manager, says the number is...

Veteran Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer’s recollection of the original Task Manager is a reminder that great system tools are often born from constraint, not abundance. In a recent discussion highlighted by Tom’s Hardware, Plummer said the utility was only about 80KB in its original form so it...