Dave’s Garage: Shop Talk

Running the Old Windows Task Manager on the Current Windows! ShopTalk!

Dave’s Garage: Shop Talk

Show Notes

How do you get and install the original Task Manager now? These and other questions from Dave's Garage and Dave's Attic episodes are posed and answered. And a new "Friendly Coder" outro at the end.

00:00 - Welcome to Shop Talk 00:14 - How would you approach writing a task manger these days, knowing everything you do now. 01:45 - I guess the NDA is already expired? 02:06 - Why are kernel tasks not listed and other secret tasks not listed. 02:50 - Why did you make a dll call that hides a running process from taskview? 03:29 - What made you think of naming it Task Manager? 04:20 - We called CTRL + ALT + DEL the “Three Finger Salute”. 05:14 - why didn’t you make it possible to empty cache memory directly from task manager? 05:48 - I want TM to launch on login and automatically select the Performance tab. 06:27 - Are you the one who made the numbers in the memory column not add up to the number at the top of the column? 07:47 - how can you tell GPU usage just through code? 08:14 - psmon, ps monitor , or process monitor? Is it related to task manager? 08:47 - Can you comment on Mark Russinovich’s Sysinternals and Process Explorer? 09:47 - I habitually install Process Explorer and make it replace Task Manager. Am I doing it wrong? 10:10 - Were you aware of any similar third party Apple tools at the time? 10:38 - So what does happen when you press end task? 11:22 - why does my task manager shows 50% cpu usage and goes back to 6% when i open it? 13:07 - How do I resub each time I’m asked to and how do I leave a like more than once? 13:34 - Thank you for task manager | how can I send you a donation? 14:28 - Is there a way to open the task manager with true admin privileges? 15:32 - Why does task manager not save the settings you apply to how high priority an app should be? 17:36 - I’d REALLY like to understand the source control structure back before Git. 19:04 - Are you the installation wizard? 20:32 - i won’t call you. But can i send you a fax? 21:07 - When is Clippys birthday? 21:22 - Dude, I Sooo want to call you to thank you for all the times your “little” program saved my tail from the fire. 21:53 - Did I miss something, what was the easter egg, that was promised? 22:25 - Why is software getting slower and slower even though hardware is getting much better. 24:04 - I’d love to know what you think of the Anakin Skywalker meme? 25:05 - Dave has any of your Amiga code survived over the years like on AmiNet? 25:57 - Dave, can you tell me the story behind the Benjamin on the cork board? 28:49 - is the exposure bloom happening on the fx3 when using automatic exposure? 29:22 - Dave, you know what’s worse than flickering sub-windows when resizing? 29:40 - Who else only clicked on this because you thought it was about Taskmaster? 30:17 - Do you write out a script and then read it on camera? 30:56 - Does your intro music have sounds from the 3d pinball game? 31:21 - Are you ACTUALLY in yoiur attic? or is that just a ruse! 32:13 - So why don’t they just enrcypt the game data and get rid of anticheat alltogether? 33:28 - Let me suggest Microsoft provide a third version of OS, for high-end gaming. 33:58 - Is MS lsitening to Dave’s videos???… 35:30 - How do I find a basic subset of APIs and where can I learn low level programming most efficiently? 36:35 - Have you used Windows Server Core ?? 36:50 - Why does Windows still use the NTFS file system and not ExFat? 37:23 - Floppies spin continuously the whole time they’re inserted, Doesn’t this result in a lot of wear? 38:49 - Do you know if anyone still makes 5.25” floppies? 39:39 - When you “Eject USB”, why can’t Windows tell you what files/apps are holding onto the USB? 40:17 - Will we see kernal choice and GUI/development environment becoming decoupled? 40:47 - Could you tell us a bit about how you went from growing up in Saskatchewan to wherever you are now? 42:43 - I have begun “hyping” this channel, does Dave owe me money now?

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