Previously, I had only seen this Analyze Wait Chain in Resource Monitor, but here it is the Windows 8 Task Manager. One option to find out more about hanging programs is ‘Analyze wait chain’, however, you only get this option to spot deadlocks if you right-click a process in the Details view.Īs the name implies, Analyze wait chain tree shows which processes are using, or waiting to use, a resource that is being used by another process.
If you find a process with ‘Status suspended’ you can right-click (this or any other process) and troubleshoot. I realize that the Windows Task Manager itself is a well-known program, however, you can use it as a vehicle to right-click then check ‘Open File Locations’, now you can see the path: C: \Windows\System32\TM.exe. One reason for going to the Processes tab is to check the location of suspicious executables. The second new feature to note is the way processes are grouped, starting with ‘Applications’ followed by ‘Background processes’. Not only has the name of the executable been changed from taskmgr.exe to tm.exe, but also the interface now displays the process information in columns.
The Windows 8 task manager has been given a make-over. Plan B try gpedit or regedit and check if the task manager has been disabled. If none of these techniques work, it could be a virus that is preventing task manager launching. If that 3-key combination does not work, you could revert to the Metro-style UI and hit ‘t’ on your keyboard Task Manager should appear amongst the Apps beginning with ‘t’. Good news, the old keyboard tricks still work in Windows 8, so you can launch the new Windows 8 Task Manager with the command: Ctrl +Shift +Esc. Microsoft has redesigned the Windows 8 Task Manager they have pulled off the rare trick of providing more information, yet making it easier to see what’s happening with underlying processes.
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