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Kristina Terech

Want Windows 11's old Task Manager back? It's easy – here's how

Woman sitting at a desk in her home, working on a laptop .

If you miss the older design of Task Manager in Windows 11, there’s good news - it’s still in the operating system and you can resurrect it - if you know where to look. The current design was introduced in the Windows 11 22H2 update. This Task Manager refresh was quite a big change to the interface, and not everyone was keen on it. 

Pressing the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys or opening Task Manager from the Start Menu will bring up the new version of Task Manager. However, X user @thebookisclosed found that you can bring up the older version of Task Manager by accessing the Windows folder in your C: drive (most users’ main drive) and opening Task Manager via the app that’s located in the SysWOW64 folder. 

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