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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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Looks like somebody already split this thread a minute earlier than my new thread. 🙃
I don't know How to merge the two.
New Task Manager reverting back to the old style with Build 22557.1, - Microsoft Community
Merged
Just checked my Laptop and it's still the new Task Manager.
Thanks C.K.
It seems to affect machines randomly.
No idea how they pick the machines where they do their different A/B tests. 🤣
I hate to see inconsistent behavior in boxes with the same Build level.
Looks like somebody already split this thread a minute earlier than my new thread. 🙃
I don't know How to merge the two.
New Task Manager reverting back to the old style with Build 22557.1, - Microsoft Community
Merged
Just checked my Laptop and it's still the new Task Manager.
Looks like somebody already split this thread a minute earlier than my new thread. 🙃
I don't know How to merge the two.
New Task Manager reverting back to the old style with Build 22557.1, - Microsoft Community
Split from this thread.
Another weird behavior with the new experimental Task Manager.
Yesterday I had the new one working on this Desktop, but today it reverted back to the old format, yet a second desktop still has the new experimental Task Manager, why did they decide to turn it off on one machine and not the other? MS is playing a weird game with one of my machines.
Desktop XPS 8930 with UHD screen reverted back to old task manager:
yet another older desktop XPS 8300 still has the new experimental Task Manager.
Edit:
I restored the image backup from yesterday and got back the new Task Manager on the XPS 8930. The question remains, why was it reverted back to the old Task Manager after a day? Are they playing A/B testing again?
Regardless of the Stack update or A & B testing; my Task Manager reverted to the old design from the new one.
Davy.
They reverted back mine too again, with the disabled configurations I mentioned earlier, nothing to do with Update Stack Package or any other update, there were no updates today on my systems.
One reverted back to the old Task Manager the other has still the new one.
Edit:
I changed it back to the new one again. We'll see how long it lasts. 😉
Maybe time for a separate thread on this specific subject and A/B testing. 🤣
New Task Manager reverting back to the old style with Build 22557.1, - Microsoft Community