April 08, 2009, 4:43 PM — Remember the good old XP days, when tapping Ctrl-Alt-Del immediately brought up the Windows Task Manager? The same action in Vista produces decidedly different results: a full-screen, five-option menu with Task Manager at the bottom.
Sure, it's only an extra mouse click away, but I miss having direct access to Task Manager. It's like having to make a long-distance call to a friend who lives right next door.
Fortunately, there's a hotkey shortcut that takes you straight to TM. Ready? Got a pen handy? Okay, here it is:
Ctrl-Shift-Esc
I know, tricky, right? Now I just need to commit that to memory, somehow overwriting a couple decade's worth of Ctrl-Alt-Del. Let's see, what's a good mnemonic...
I have to control the shift that Windows made to Escaping crashed programs. Yeah, that might work.
