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A small update here. If you rely on the Windows 10 Task Manager for Windows 11, you must be annoyed by its crashes on version 24H2.
Version 2.0 of the TaskMgr package resolves the issues:
The Windows 10 Task Manager is available for download from this link.
Special thanks go to our reader "gad".
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