How to open the Task Manager in Windows 11

This tutorial shows you how to open the Task Manager in Windows 11, as there are several options to access the task manager. In Windows 10 you could simply call up the task manager via the context menu of the taskbar. This no longer works in Windows 11. Now you have the following options:

• The old Ctrl-Shift-Esc key combination still works in Windows 11.

• You can right-click on the Windows symbol in the taskbar - the Start button - and call up the alternative start menu. Then click on the Task Manager entry.

• You can press the Ctrl-Alt-Del key combination and click on Task Manager.

• You can press the Windows-R key combination to open the Run window and type in either *taskmgr or LaunchTM followed by Enter.

• In the category view of the Control Panel, you can open the entry System and Security and then the Windows Tools. Right-click on the Task Manager and select Create Shortcut. Windows will then ask you whether it can create the shortcut on the desktop. Confirm with Yes. Then open the task manager by double-clicking on its desktop icon.

• You can use the Explorer to go to the \Windows\System32 folder and right-click on the taskmgr.exe file. Select Show more options and click *Pin to taskbar" in the old context menu that follows.

• You can type task into the Windows search box on the Start menu and click on the Task Manager match.

Also just a few days ago, a fix for a bug in the Windows 11 task manager has been made available via Windows Update. This bug in the program was related to a new feature. The task manager in Windows 11 not only adapts to a light or dark theme, but also reacts to individual personalization. If you had set the colors to custom in the settings of the Windows interface, it could happen that individual things were no longer legible. This has now been fixed. With the new update, unexpected colors are no longer displayed in the task manager.