Windows Vista: Task Manager Disappeared

One of the lovely features of Windows Vista is that almost nothing is where it used to be in Windows XP. One thing that now has a new "address" is the Task Manager, which lets you view (and terminate if necessary) open programs and processes. Task Manager also enables you to determine how much memory is being used, and restart your computer if needed. In XP and earlier versions of Windows, you called up Task Manager by pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE. But that's not how you open it with Windows Vista...

CTRL-ALT-DELETE displays login or logoff options in Windows Vista. To open Task Manager, you now must use the key combination CTRL-SHIFT-ESC. I'm not sure why Microsoft felt it necessary to move something that's been in the same place, so to speak, for a long time. But, since they did move it, I guess we all have to live with it.