I like to apply various tweaks on a new system, difficult to keep track of them, so I'm automating as many as I can. One area that I have been unable to crack is the Task Manager, which starts in the useless "Less details" state. I have found a few tricks for Task manager, such as:
- To reset Task Manager back to the defaults, you can delete the entire Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TaskManager
- Alternatively, holding down CTRL+SHIFT+ALT while opening Task Manager will also reset Task Manager.
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- The shortcut key to open Task Manager is CTRL+SHFIT+ESC
The changes that I would really appreciate finding out how to do in PowerShell are:
- Make Task Manager also open in the "More details" view on a new system instead of the (very non-useful) "Less details" view.
- Remove the "GPU", "GPU engine", "Power usage", and "Power usage trend" columns in the Processes tab, as I've never really had a use for these in many years of Task Manager usage.
- Add the "Command line" column which can be very useful for troubleshooting.
- Turn on View > Expand all to always show all sub-processes.
- A way to programmatically set Task Manager to either Processes or Performance tabs on opening.
What are the registry tweaks / PowerShell methods to achieve these goals? These are something that I've wanted for many years actually, would like to have a script that can set these whenever I go onto any Windows / Windows Server system to make Task Manager as useful as possible.