I am having a problem with the task manager

reble · 22 Apr 2015

Task manager isn't opening the way it should on my laptop. The 1st attached file "task manager.jpg" is as the way the task manager in my Win7 home 32bit is looking like. The next attached file "task-manager.jpg" is what we all know that task manager in Win7 should look like . This problem just started doing this when I started up the laptop this morning. I don't remember the last time I had to open task manager but it was fine. The rest of Windows is fine. Which leads me to think some kind of a virtual software switch accidently got thrown. Where, what and how, I don't know. I would like to get the task manager back to normal. Also I did try a cold reboot of the laptop (I pulled the ac power pack and the battery). No change in the task manager after the boot up. How do I fix this?

Steve

DavidE · 22 Apr 2015

Double click on the "blank border area" above the task list in your screen print 1.

Tookeri · 22 Apr 2015

Forget Task Manager and try Process Explorer

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reble · 22 Apr 2015

It worked thanks. I don't know how the task manager got that way and I can't recreate the problem so I know why it happened.

DavidE said:

Double click on the "blank border area" above the task list in your screen print 1.

Tookeri · 23 Apr 2015

You probably double clicked the area outside the box of tasks. The same way you fixed it will toggle it back again if you double click it one more time. It doesn't have to be above the task list, only somewhere outside that task box. For example next to the buttons at the bottom.