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I'm just wondering, what possibly could've happened to cause this specifically to terminal manager but not any other app? Were they trying to make it always stay on in the background? Why though, that's so useless for something that already opens fast
If you're asking why Microsoft codes such overly complex, bloated and arbitrary mechanisms.. then you're about 20 years late
retvrn to XP
More like 30 and the original answer was "to keep people from running windows with other DOSes"
The neat thing is that it's all proprietary and we'll never know. Given how everything on windows is so tightly bundled together (pejorative). It might be a library dependency thing that didn't sync with task manager.
Using AI to write their code probably
I hate when programs do that. If I wanted it to run in the background, I'd hit the minimize button.