task manager

vgoraz · Post by **vgoraz** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 3:28 am

is there anyway possible to have task manager start up with things sorted by default? for instance, lets say you want task manager to always start with tasks sorted by memory usage (or spu usage), how exactly would you go about doing this. mine doesnt really seem to start sorted by anything in particular, its annoying

vgoraz · Post by **vgoraz** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 3:31 am

ok after going to the options and having the task manager show everything, it seems things are initially sorted by the process id (pid), so yeah i have figured that out. it seems to always want to default to sorting in descending order with the pid. i am off to mess around with the registry among other things to see if i can change this

johnli · Post by **johnli** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 12:28 pm

I don't know of any way off hand, I don't recall seeing any mention of it in the registry; googling doesn't appear to turn up many results so it may not even be possible.
Having said that, good luck in the registry and when you find out how be sure to pass it on

.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 4:23 pm

You may have some luck with a 3rd-party replacement task manager. I don't know of any though. I don't use Windows.

vgoraz · Post by **vgoraz** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 7:02 pm

the registry had no settings i could find other than one that lets you chose which users have access to the task manager and such, so yeah no luck yet. time to find other methods

vgoraz · Post by **vgoraz** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 11:25 am

ok yes i give up, there seems to be no way possible to do this. time to get a new task manager, or maybe a simple cpu meter that watches both cpus. i hate skinning rainmeter though, but oh well.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:10 pm

Here's a site that has a CPU monitor:

http://www.nospaceleft.com/

Look for BiCPU on the left-side.

vgoraz · Post by **vgoraz** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 3:10 pm

i set up my own rainmeter skin so i am using that instead (actually its a variation of black'n'white showing just what i want it to show). i use litestep as my shell so i mean it makes lots of sense to use rainmeter and the other rain programs as they load up nicely as modules with !bangs to control them and all. here is the link to the rain programs
http://vapaa.dc.inet.fi/~rainy/index.html