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CTRL+ALT+DEL = Task Manager in Vista?

Contributed by Hack_Vista

January 30, 2007

Tagged: Microsoft Vista

Why can’t the ole three-finger shuffle directly bring up the task manager in vista like it did in XP? Here is how to find your friendly task manager in vista with one shortcut.

CTRL+ALT+DEL no longer brings up the task manager in vista. Sorry.

Since vista is is of the NT lineage, this has been changed to the NT behavior. Who know why. Complain and whine. Complain and whine.

Or just learn the new keyboard combination for the task manager:

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC

Go ahead and practice it a few times now.

You can also right click on the task bar to pull up the task manager as well…

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Anonymous 10 months ago 1 point
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I followed the advice in this entry and found that when I right-click on the taskbar, "task manager" is greyed out. Any ideas? Do I have something disabled?

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Anonymous 10 months ago 1 point
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are you logged in as Admin ?
you might not have rights.

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cal 1 month ago 1 point
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I've tried both and neither works!!

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microsoft hater 3 weeks ago 1 point
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I hate microsoft.
It's just one of the examples of : "use the computer how we tell you or else!"
if you are use to CTRL+ALT+DELETE there is no option to make it open the task manager again, microsoft thinks it's best that you press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, and if you oppose, sucks for you.

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Joey 3 weeks ago 1 point
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I hate that they changed the keyboard shortcut, but thanks for letting me know about the new one...although I should really be thanking Google lol :P

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Joey 3 weeks ago 1 point
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One good thing about the new shortcut is that you can do it with your left hand ONLY, which means that you can keep your right hand on the mouse. I hated that I had to use both hands for Ctrl-Alt-Del.

I still hate having to get used to the change though.

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