The Secret the Task Manager developer didn’t want you to know!

Dave Plummer, who has the Youtube channel Dave’s Garage announced on Twitter:

Big news! Someone finally noticed that if you hold down CTRL, the process list in Task Manager conveniently freezes so you can select rows without them jumping around. I did this so you could sort by CPU and other dynamic columns but then still be able to click stuff…

Dave Plummer

There’s been plenty of occasions where Task Manager rows jump around to my annoyance. Why wasn’t this a more obvious feature? Frank Krueger (who appears on Merge Conflict podcast) made the obvious point:

Don’t hide features under random key combos – undiscoverable and unmemorable UIs are user hostile. A little checkbox with the text “Pause Display” would be discoverable and you won’t have to wait 30 years for someone to find your feature.

https://x.com/praeclarum/status/1693649521375621524?s=20

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