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    why no cpu temp in task manager?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Tinderbox (UK), Apr 9, 2007.

  1. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    I would have thought microsoft would have added an cpu temperature monitor to the windows task manger.

    instead people have to rely on third party applications.

    I would have liked it to be intergrated into one package.

    does visa have one?.

    regards.

    John.
     
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  2. Matt

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    No, Vista's Task Manager does not. In fact, the only differences in Vista's are:

    1) A Services tab (obviously showing your services)
    2) A description field in the Processes tab (So you pretty much never need the Applications tab)
    3) Physical Memory Used on the bottom of the window next to CPU Usage.

    I have wondered this myself... I strongly agree that they should add it, though.

    Matt
     
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    I can think of two reasons.
    First, the task manager is for managing and monitoring the OS. Not hardware. (Yes, it shows CPU utilization, but again, that is essentially an OS thing. How much CPU time are my apps using?) And just as importantly, it doesn't really require reading anything special from the hardware.
    Same goes for the stats it show about memory usage. Again, this is a listing of how Windows' own memory manager is doing, rather than what is physically going on with the RAM at the moment.

    Second, there's (as far as I know), no standard way of reading the temperature. It depends on the CPU and motherboard (and some older CPU's don't have a temperature sensor at all). So they'd have to update task manager when a new CPU comes out. Personally, I'd prefer it if task manager just works, and tells me about the state of the OS without requiring monthly updates.
     
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