[Resolved in Build 22567] New Task Manager reverting back to the old style with Build 22557.1, randomly on different machines.

Anonymous
2022-02-18T16:00:07+00:00

After updating to Build 22557.1 on 2/16/2022 the new style Task Manager showed up and worked as advertise in the blog except for a minor bug with the Title of the tabs defaulting to Processes regardless of the tab selected to open as default in settings.

A day later on 2/17/2022 the new Task Manager started to revert to the old style on some machines randomly.

Other machines still have the new style Task Manager.

It appears to be another typical A/B testing done by MS without any warning to the users.

On one machine it reverted back again on 2/18/2022 after I restored it to the new style the day before.

I have no problem participating in A/B testing, but I'd like MS to notify when they change those experimental features so that the users are not left guessing on what is happening.

This comment is in the Blog:

[We are beginning to roll this change out, so it isn’t available to all Insiders just yet as we plan to monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.]

FEEDBACK: Please file feedback in Feedback Hub (WIN + F) under Desktop Environment > Task Manager.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-19T07:35:17+00:00

    Hi fg,

    I don't know why it doesn't show but if you do what I'm doing in the animation (grab TM and jerk it up & down),

    do you see the bottom of a window appear from the top of the screen?

    edit: this a new clean install thus the new TM

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-19T00:45:57+00:00

    @J W Stuart,

    Restart is not going to make any difference unless they change the Features Configuration files to enable the new feature. Nothing to do with the Update Stack Package.

    If the new Task Manager features configurations are disabled, they will stay disabled till they are updated from the server. Then they will take effect after a restart.

    They can be changed manually, but that is a discussion for another thread. 😏

    Thanks

    I did the Restart just to eliminate one of the possibilities.

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  3. Drew - 810 Reputation points
    2022-02-18T23:13:46+00:00

    So, sue me 😉🤣 I do happen to like the look & style of the new TM and I happen to prefer Dark Mode. Many have been asking for it to be Dark and waiting for that, knowing it was coming.

    Cheers,
    Drew

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-18T22:39:40+00:00

    This comment is in the Blog:

    [We are beginning to roll this change out, so it isn’t available to all Insiders just yet as we plan to monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.]

    FEEDBACK: Please file feedback in Feedback Hub (WIN + F) under Desktop Environment > Task Manager.

    I think I see what is happening.

    According to the Blog they wanted to do a controlled release of the new Task Manager, but then they realized that the new Task Manager was enabled by default to everybody right after W.U. to 22557.1

    At that point they decided to disable it by adding the 2 configurations in disabled mode and revert it back to the old format.

    It is getting reverted back in most machines, so that they get back in a controlled release fashion as it was the original idea expressed in the Blog.

    If I delete completely the configurations related to Task Manager as they were originally after W.U. to 22557 the new Task Manager shows up again after a restart.

    Confusing? That is MS. 🤣

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  5. Drew - 810 Reputation points
    2022-02-18T22:02:28+00:00

    And as you know my 557 has been updated via WU from the previous on an Enhanced Mode Hyper-V Gen2 vm.

    Cheers,
    Drew![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/fb852c4c-4e07-4b13-b336-22456f413d8a?platform=QnA

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