Windows 11’s Task Manager is getting a search field that will help you discover misbehaving apps

Microsoft has began testing a brand new search and filtering system for the Task Manager on Windows 11. It will enable Windows customers to simply seek for a misbehaving app and finish its course of or shortly create a dump file, allow effectivity mode, and extra.

“This is the top feature request from our users to filter / search for processes,” explains the Windows Insider staff in a blog post. “You can filter either using the binary name, PID or publisher name. The filter algorithm matches the context keyword with all possible matches and displays them on the current page.”

You’ll be capable to use the alt + F keyboard shortcut to leap to the filter field within the Task Manager, and outcomes might be filtered into single or teams of processes you can monitor or take motion on.

Alongside the brand new search and filter performance, Microsoft can be including the power to select between mild or darkish themes within the Task Manager. Themes may even be utilized totally all through Task Manager, with some updates to its UI to suit extra intently with Microsoft’s general Fluent work.

Last however not least, Microsoft is bettering the effectivity mode in Task Manager. This mode is used to set a course of at a decrease precedence or enhance energy effectivity, and it’s going to be simpler to decide out of the affirmation dialog field quickly.

All of the adjustments are being examined within the newest Windows 11 beta channel launch at present, which suggests they’ll seemingly arrive within the working system within the coming weeks or months.