Microsoft Veteran Engineer Explains Windows 11 Task Manager Lag Under Heavy CPU Load, Saying It’s “Hard To Fix A Runaway System From Within That Same System”

Has your Task Manager frozen in Windows 11 when you’re running an extremely taxing program? If yes, you’re not the first and you certainly won’t be the last. Microsoft’s veteran software engineer Raymond Chen has addressed a frustration many users are quite familiar with, especially when a game, a browser with too many tabs, or a heavy app pushes a PC to its limits. As for a potential change, it appears as if things will remain as they are.

When Windows 11 runs out of CPU time, Chen says that every process suffers, including the Task Manager

On Microsoft’s Dev Blogs website, Windows Latest noticed Chen’s explanation, which also states that running Task Manager at high priority might sound simple and easy, but that’s not the case. Like this Windows 11 add-on, any program running at high priority will eventually hit a shared resource it has to wait for, and at that point it is stuck. He compares it to a priority checkout pass that gets…