What’s Brand New in the New Task Manager?

No matter what you did, Task Manager would stubbornly remain bright white.

Task Manager’s dark mode will be enabled when youenable dark mode for your entire system.

Dark Task Manager on Windows background

Efficiency Mode

Microsoft has introduced a new “Efficiency Mode” in the Task Manager.

The first is that you cannot put an active process in “Efficiency Mode.”

Click “Turn on Efficiency Mode.”

The new Task Manager’s dark theme on the "Performance" tab.

Lorax- approved indicator icons.

You probably shouldn’t put every background process into efficiency mode.

you might disable efficiency mode by going back to the three-dot menu and clicking “Efficiency Mode” again.

Microsoft has outlinedthe details of what efficiency mode doesand why it was introduced.

Select a background process, click the three-dot menu button, then click "Efficiency Mode" to restrict the processes’s resource usage.

What Changed in the New Task Manager?

Windows 11’s 2022 updatebrought a few major visual changes to the Task Manager.

We tried them out on a touchscreen gadget and found them easy to tap reliably without any issues.

Click "Turn On Efficiency Mode."

They’re easy to use with a mouse and keyboard or on a touch display.

Previously they were accessible via two separate drop-down menus, “Options” and “View.”

Related:How to Install Windows 11’s 2022 Update (22H2)

Small leaves indicating that a background process is in efficiency mode.

Lorax- approved indicator icons.