Dave Plummer

And don't be afraid, because if it asserts, it's doing you a favor.

I think some people are afraid, you know, it's like when you turn out of an intersection and you think maybe there's somebody coming and you don't look left.

Yeah.

Or maybe I want to do that, but it's like that.

People don't assert because they're afraid they're going to fire.

Well, no, you want to know.

So Windows Task Manager is a way to go in and find out which apps on your system are using the computer, using the hardware, using the CPU, using the memory, and which ones might be using too much or locked up or going crazy.

And it gives you the ability to terminate and kill those ones.

So it's an inspection and a fixing tool.

Yeah.

Well, I had the great fortune of working on a lot of things that people are familiar with.

And Task Manager was one of those side projects that I started as something that I wanted for myself.

And eventually came in-house.

So I started writing it at home and I got kind of the basics up and running.

And I was using, I think it's HKEY performance in the registry to get the stats because I didn't have access to the internal APIs because I was working from home and I don't call those if I'm working from home.

And when I brought it in-house, then I was able to call things like anti-query system information or anti-query process information and get the real

Answers very quickly, which enabled it to become a very fast, responsive app.

So people have come to rely on it because I wrote it to be as reliable as possible.

I wasn't worried about the features.

It was a basic set of functionality that I wanted in there.