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Registry Hack To Unlock The Mordern Windows 8 Task Manager

This article was posted on April 22, 2011 in "Troubleshooting, Windows 8'' section by Kapil Arya.

With the leak of the Windows 8 Milestone Build 7850(6.1.7850.0.winmain_win8m1.100922-1508) MDL user NaiveUser seems to have got a whole new purpose to his life.  naiveUser has been unlocking various features that Microsoft has made in Windows 8. He has been able to do so with the help of some Registry Hacks. The recent registry hack introduced by Naïve User was to unlock the Modern Windows Task Manager.

The Modern Task Manager is pretty different from one we have been using in Windows XP/Vista/7. Following are the changes we found so far:

  • New interface to kill an existing process.
  • A tab to manage the Startup programs. We wont have to go to “wpconfig” utility anymore to manage startup programs/processes.
  • Separate Dropdowns for System processes, Which would make it easier for us to recognize the user Processes and hence kill any application which is causing trouble and not system requirement.

If you have already installed the Windows 8 build 7850, then here is registry hack you can use to unlock the Modern Windows Task Manager.

Navigate here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\TaskUI

Create a 32bit value “TaskUIEnabled”, set its value to “1“.

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