That's not quite true. The Event Viewer has always had filtering and search and it's mmc-based. They could easily iterate on the Services UI and add that too instead of just building something completely new that has no new functionality and doesn't improve the interface.

I'm tired of Microsoft actively making things worse instead of actually improving what they already have.

Task Manager not having a modern filter/search for the gigantic list isn’t only an annoyance and a productivity killer but also a security issue.

If I suspect a nefarious app is running in the background somewhere I have to manually read the list to find it and kill it.

End of the day one of two things is happening, either no one influential at MS uses Windows or their structure is so broken that pointing out something like this it isn’t even possible to action the feature to be built.

There seems to be something really wrong with task manager.

In Win 11 22h2, if you start it as a regular user, you get the new interface. If you run it as administrator, you get the old one.

It also somehow manages to often maximize behind the taskbar. Or cut the output on the righ-hand side of the info in the performance / memory pane.

tasklist | findstr "malicious.exe"

or

tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq malicious.exe"

you could always use resmon.exe

This and the other comment are non-answers.

The fact that another obscure application (at least obscure to most people) can do this does not mean it is ok for task manager not to have this very basic feature.

> I agree, but I do want to point out that some of these "not updated" things are still heavily used and offer a bad user experience.

I still remember the day I found out the envvar configuration screen had been updated, and finally:

* could be resized so you could see more than 4 envvars at a time, and had a scrollbar taller than 5mm to scroll through the list

* could be resized so you could actually see the entire envvar value without having to slowly move the cursor rightwards or copy it to notepad

* added a bespoke list editor for PATH so you wouldn't forget the separator or paste the new path at entirely the wrong location half the time

At that moment the sun started shining brighter. God was the old dialog unusable shit.

I haven't used Windows in almost 13 years and I still remember that shitty env var config screen. Wow, this is bringing back memories.

I'm so sorry for the flashback.