Although the windows 11 22h2 feature update does not introduce any breakthrough new features, it has carefully polished many details, including the task manager redesigned through winui, fluent design and mica.
The home page of the task manager has been redesigned, and the tabs (i.e. process, performance, network) that are usually located at the top of the application have been moved to the left. The reason is that the company wants to make task manager more suitable for tablet computers and "modern".
The task manager window now uses the new mica translucent material. For ordinary users, mica is a new "design material" designed to align the background color of the application window or title bar with the desktop background to generate a beautiful "color hierarchy".
In other words, if you open the task manager on another application, such as paint, windows 11 the theme color of the desktop background will still be applied to the title bar of the task manager.
The main functional update of task manager is efficiency mode, which is a new way to ensure that you control some processes. Using efficiency mode, you can reduce CPU pressure by minimizing the use of system resources based on processes. This can lead to faster front office response and better energy efficiency.
The efficiency mode of the task manager utilizes ecoqos and limits process resource usage by reducing process priority. When the priority of a process is reduced, applications that depend on the process will not simply end. Instead, it will stay in the background and allow other important applications / processes to run efficiently on the CPU.
According to Microsoft officials, this will not come at the cost of performance. The company insists that performance is still the top priority in the overhaul of windows 11 task manager, and they "want to ensure that all these new features (mica and rounded corners) are super smooth".
In addition to the new tab layout and design, Microsoft also moves common operations such as creating new tasks and ending tasks to the top. These common actions change when you switch between tabs in the task manager.
Overall, the design may look similar to the current iteration, but the background now supports dark patterns and is full of fillets. This is another step to make the task manager more in line with Microsoft's vision of a modern and visually attractive interface.