Why Task Manager appears slower when you start it from the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog?

I love how this guy always pretends that nonintuitive things are completely obvious, even when they are actually the furthest thing from it. Definitely edifying to read his blog but I don't get the sense that he has much respect for his users, or to put it another way, a that he has an accurate perspective on how reality differs from people's expectations.<p><i>Clearly</i> that's going to be slower, you doofus. It's almost as dumb as asking why an international package takes longer to arrive than a domestic one. What are you, some kind of moron?

What's interesting here is that I don't think most people think of the Winlogon screen as being in a separate user space than the main desktop.<p>I mean, it has to be, because it can switch users, but I don't think it's intuitively obvious.

&#62;&#62; <i>Clearly, in order to get Task Manager running on your desktop with your credentials, winlogon needs to change its security context, change desktops, and then launch taskmgr.exe.</i><p>My question then would be why is that option even present on the <i>"wrong security context"</i>? I don't really see how it fits the other options present in that context. It's probably there just because they felt bad alienating the users that were used to the shortcut.<p>So they creep in functionality into a well known keyboard shortcut, then make the well known original functionality worst because of the new functionality. Then enters this guy and blames you for doing it wrong.

Why not just using Ctrl+Shift+Esc?

&#62; ..it's like sending a package internationally...<p>If it's a local package, why put it in the international mail box in the first place?

When on Windows, I just leave an instance of Process Explorer running. My own machines I have set to fire it up upon boot. (These are not servers.)<p><a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653" rel="nofollow">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653</a>