- Windows 11 obtains a change to avoid confusion around different reports of processor use levels in the task manager
- This is just in testing, but should soon move to Windows 11 24h2 and 11:2 p.m.
- A lock screen function to give Windows 11 users the possibility of choosing widgets is also incoming
Windows 11 has a new overview version that shines with the task manager to ensure that it correctly shows consistent figures for the ventilation of the processor using its various menus.
This overview is built 26120.3360 which has arrived in the Dev and Beta channels for Windows 11 testers, and it also has a new useful feature for the locking screen (to which I will come back later).
But first, this decision for Task Manager, which is part of the Windows 11 base which can be summoned to perform all kinds of functions related to the application. This includes managing applications started automatically when you start the PC, but one of its main uses is to see how your system resources are used. (If you want to know more, we have a deep explanator on the task manager).
As a general rule, you can invoke the task manager when your PC really moves away and runs very slowly, so that you can see which applications (or applications) consume either a lot of CPUs, memory or perhaps driving resources. (A practical shortcut for the start -up task manager is to maintain Ctrl + Shift + Escape Together, by the way).
Now you may not have noticed it, but the task manager is not consistent in the way it displays the percentage of CPUs used on its different tabs. These are the performance processes and tabs (as well as the user panel), which can display different readings.
While Windows has the most recent, which has spotted it, underlines, although the processes tab could indicate a 9% use of the processor, the performance panel could say 14% – and this could be confusing, which led the user to believe that Windows 11 is somewhat incorrect here.
In fact, it is not an error, but it is rather a problem of consistency. The Process tab uses a slightly different way of calculating the percentage of CPU, which has now been modified.
In the blog post for the new version of overview, Microsoft informs us: “We are starting to deploy a change in the way the task manager calculates the use of the processor for the pages of processes, performance and users. Task Manager will now use standard measurements to display the CPU workload in a consistent manner on all pages and alignment with industry standards and third -party tools. »»
It is good to see this wrinkle being postponed, because it may have caused some confusion when somewhat different percentages of the processor have been reported via the task manager. With this implementation, you will see the same percentage through the task manager, whatever the extent you are looking at.
Although this change is still in testing, according to Windows, it should soon go to the version of the Windows 11 version. Indeed, the technological site claims that we should see this refinement for the task manager in a few weeks in Windows 11 24h2 and 11:2 p.m.
If you prefer the old way to work, you can change it via an option in the Details of the task manager. (The different measure currently used on the process panel is called “CPU utility” and can be reactivated, if you wish).
Elsewhere in this version of overview, there is another useful adjustment, but it is a double -edged sword – mainly because it only occurs in Europe (at least for the moment).
The move in question is with locking screen widgets and it is the introduction of the highly sought -after capacity to choose the displayed widgets (rather than having them all, or none of them). Unfortunately, this coverage rule on or offered for all those outside the European Economic Area (EEE), but the best news is that the complete customization of locking screen widgets will ultimately be deployed in the United States and other regions.
However, we have been waiting for too long since this particular change arrives in Windows 11, frankly – although always better late than never.
