Use Task Manager as a Desktop Widget [How To]

By Rich on March 3, 2009 (13 Comments)

I was playing with task manager, when I came across this simple trick, which lets you display any item from task manager as a ‘desktop widget’; learn how to make your task manager into a widget in this guide.

Running Task Manager as a Widget

To run task manager as a widget, do the following:

Start task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC)
Double click anywhere (apart from menus)
Resize the box to your needs

You can do this for any panel of the start menu:

Performance Widget

task manager widget01 Use Task Manager as a Desktop Widget [How To]

Networking Widget

task manager widget02 Use Task Manager as a Desktop Widget [How To]

Applications Widget

task manager widget03 Use Task Manager as a Desktop Widget [How To]

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mavihs
Nice!!!!!!
This is going 2 be pretty handy 4 me!!! :p
mavihs
Nice!!!!!!
This is going 2 be pretty handy 4 me!!! :p
mavihs
Nice!!!!!!
This is going 2 be pretty handy 4 me!!! :p
mavihs
cant there be multiple instance of task manager!!!!!!
mavihs
cant there be multiple instance of task manager!!!!!!
mavihs
cant there be multiple instance of task manager!!!!!!
John
Cool!!
John
Cool!!
John
Cool!!
gidea
Dont see how this is a widget,
seems lame + takes up big chunk
of my desktop space. ‘nuther wasteful windows thingy
gidea
Dont see how this is a widget,
seems lame + takes up big chunk
of my desktop space. ‘nuther wasteful windows thingy
gidea
Dont see how this is a widget,
seems lame + takes up big chunk
of my desktop space. ‘nuther wasteful windows thingy
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