[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
    2022-02-22T16:53:43+00:00

    As mentioned in our blog post here from earlier this month (read the blog here), we will be trying new features out with Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel through a variety of ways. This means sometimes you might see a feature or change, and sometimes you might not - and sometimes you might see a feature or change and it reverts back as we try things out. As mentioned in our blog post for Build 22557, the new Task Manager design is only available to a subset of Insiders right now as we monitor feedback before making it available to all Insiders in the Dev Channel.

    And one additional note to address some of the other questions/suggestions in the thread: the Update Stack Package is not in any way related to this feature being enabled (or not enabled). :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-22T18:53:37+00:00

    Hi Jason,

    Do you have any comments about "chkdsk C: /f" deleting the feature configurations?

    This was a problem that was already reported and acknowledged by MS several months ago with Insider builds.

    We never got an official response on why this is happening.

    The problem is now resurfaced with build 22557, but not on every machine. ????

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-23T03:31:27+00:00

    Hi Sibro,

    I did another test on the behavior of "chkdsk C: /F" and got even more confusing results on a second desktop after a clean install.

    It only deleted the feature configurations added after the initial ones that were set up during the clean install.

    I ran the chkdsk several times and always found the original feature configurations unchanged.

    There must be some other way they save those original configurations or they get Reconciled from the server right after the restart. The whole mechanism is more and more confusing. 😎

    On the same machine with a system that was updated from previous builds the chkdsk deleted all the feature configurations. 😜

    Next test will be to run chkdsk while disconnected from the network to see if those a saved locally or not.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-23T04:07:55+00:00

    Next test will be to run chkdsk while disconnected from the network to see if those a saved locally or not.

    You don't give up easily, do you?

    Dare I say looking forward to your findings? 🤣

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-23T04:58:17+00:00

    Next test will be to run chkdsk while disconnected from the network to see if those a saved locally or not.

    You don't give up easily, do you?

    Dare I say looking forward to your findings? 🤣

    Looks like it is saving these somewhere locally, because when I did the "chkdsk C: /F" with the network disconnected these 5 configs where still there untouched after the scan was done on reboot,

    The same 5 were originally there after the clean install.

    If I add some other configuration manually on top of the original ones they get wiped out by "chkdsk C: /F" while the original ones are not affected. I'd really like to have a clarification from MS, but I'm afraid I'll never get one. 🤐

    Maybe they have 2 different places for storing or saving these configs, but why are they still deleted by chkdsk on some cases and not always?

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