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Geek Culture / I didn't know it was possible to start multiple copies of Task Manager

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 14th Sep 2011 17:27 Edited at: 14th Sep 2011 17:27
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But it is.

I was struggling to close down a test program which was choking on the amount of media it was loading. When I finally got control back I saw this:

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Posted: 14th Sep 2011 17:29 Edited at: 14th Sep 2011 17:29
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It's not meant to happen, you only meant to be allowed one copy open. May have bugged out as your computer was responding slowly and windows may not have noticed it was already opening task manager many times before.

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Posted: 15th Sep 2011 08:35
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I think I've managed to do this before. Never occurred to me that it wasn't supposed to happen, I just figured it was my fault for spamming the key combo.
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Posted: 15th Sep 2011 13:13
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Quote: "May have bugged out as your computer was responding slowly and windows may not have noticed it was already opening task manager many times before."


I guess something like that was probably the cause.
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