How to Change the Default Tab in Task Manager in Windows 10 19H1

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Windows 10 19H1 comes with new Task Manager feature

 

Believe it or not, but the built-in Task Manager remains one of the most popular tools in Windows 10, and unsurprisingly, Microsoft keeps improving it with every new feature update.

 

As many power users know already, there are lots of third-party applications out there that can provide you with an even more detailed set of data about your system’s hardware and software components.

 

But despite these, the Task Manager still serves as the best option to gain access to the essential information regarding the running processes and the real-time performance of the system.

 

And Microsoft knows this very well, so the upcoming Windows 10 19H1 introduces a new useful feature that will make it easier for users to find the information they access the most by simply opening Task Manager.

 

As you know already, Task Manager displays data in a tab-based interface, with sections like processes, performance, app history, startup, users, details, and services.

 

Whenever you launch the app, the first tab you see is processes, so you can view information on the running processes, along with CPU, memory, and disk usage, power usage, and status. But beginning with Windows 10 19H1, you can change the default tab that you see when opening Task Manager, so for instance, you are allowed to configure the app to open right in the performance section.

 

Why is this useful?  Because if you’re trying to monitor other information than the running processes, the Task Manager becomes an even better tool to see these details.

 

The performance tab, for instance, provides access to usage data for CPU, memory, disk, and Ethernet adapters, along with graphs for each and of them and other statistics. So in Windows 10 19H1, you can launch the Task Manager to these graphs directly, all with a very easy-to-use feature.

 

 

The most recent preview builds of Windows 10 19H1 already come with such functionality, and you can try it out right now. To change the default tab in Task Manager, here’s what you need to do.

 

First and foremost, you can open Task Manager with the typical ways: right-click the taskbar and go to Task Manager or just type Task Manager in the Start menu.

 

In the Task Manager UI, you need to follow the next path:

 

Task Manager > Options > Set default tab

 

You are allowed to choose any of the available tabs to serve as the new default, so just make sure it’s selected and that’s pretty much all about it. Then, you can close the app and the next time you launch it, Task Manager opens automatically to the tab you selected.

 

There are a bunch of other options available in Task Manager, but all of them have been there for a while, including the option to minimize the app to system tray. Again, this is super-useful if you want to keep an eye on specific performance of your system, especially because Task Manager now shows graphs for CPU, memory, and disk usage too.

 

Windows 10 19H1 could come with other Task Manager improvements too, but at this point, this OS feature update is still in its early days. The development is set to come to an end in the first quarter of 2019, and according to Microsoft’s typical release schedule, it should be finalized in March.

 

Insiders will be the first to get the RTM build, while the public rollout should kick off in April. If nothing changes overnight, this option to set the default tab in Task Manager should thus become available to everyone in April.

 

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