Running task manager at startup

[Jeremy C B Nicoll]

I've got task manager as a startup program. The command that's run is:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe

and it starts up however it was last in use, more or less. But I'd
like to force it to show the Processes tab, sorted in descending cpu
order whenever it starts at boot. Is that possible?

I'm guessing that at the moment it looks at a registry key to decide
which pane to show, but I'm not sure that sort-order is remembered.
Hopefully there's a parameter that can be tacked onto the command
above, eg:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe /processes /descending

Failing that, maybe there's a registry key I could set as I shutdown
the machine so that it starts-up the way I want?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

and it starts up however it was last in use, more or less.

Correct.

This is what happens every time it starts. It starts the last way it was
shutdown.

As far as I know, there are no switches for taskmgr.exe.

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[Jeremy C B Nicoll]

This is what happens every time it starts. It starts the last way it
was shutdown.

So how does it remember that?

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [Jeremy C B Nicoll]s message :

So how does it remember that?

By examining :
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\TaskManager

 

[Wesley Vogel]

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\TaskManager

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/85039.mspx?mfr=true

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/95ffa1c2-aebe-4204-935e-8526661e529b1033.mspx


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