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Hello everyone,
I've got a very minor problem regarding Task Manager in Windows 8. Under the 'Options' menu in the Menu Bar, I am missing an entry which allows you to Enable/Disable whether the Full Name (which you can give to User accounts via Computer Management > Local Users and Groups > Users) of User accounts is displayed next to their account name (which you give when you create a new User account). If you enable this, the full name of the User account is then displayed beside the Account name in the 'Users' Tab in Task Manager.
For example: You make a new User account called 'Johnny' but you give the account a full name as 'John Smith'. Under the 'Users' tab in Task Manager, the name 'Johnny' is displayed. If you enable showing the full name, it then says in Task Manager: 'Johnny (John Smith)'.
I believe the Option to enable/disable this in Task Manager is called 'Show Full Account Name' or something similar to that (I can't check as I don't have the option in my Task Manager anymore). It can usually be found underneath 'Show history for all processes' under Task Manager's 'Options' menu.
This is not the first time the entry has disappeared from Task Manager for me. I fresh installed Windows 8 yesterday on my new laptop to find after installing all Windows Updates and Drivers, moving on to configuring the OS to my preference, the option was not there. On my desktop however, after doing the exact same procedure for it, the option was there, so I had it enabled. When I returned there later (a few weeks or so), the full name was still displayed next to the account name in Task Manager, but the option to disable it was no longer there, so I couldn't hide the full account name thereafter. Very strange as I've not done anything to my knowledge that could of caused the entry to randomly vanish. On the last fresh install of Windows 8 on my desktop (when I was unaware of such an option in Windows 8's Task Manager), I believe when looking through the menus, the option wasn't there, but as I wasn't aware of its existence in the first place, I didn't know it should have been.
It's a very minor bug in Windows 8, but it's one of the many niggles in the back of your head that really irritates you. I find it very annoying myself as the option shouldn't randomly vanish, especially on clean installs.
Does anyone know what causes this? Or how to restore the entry without re-installing Windows 8? I shouldn't have to resort to that for such a minor bug.
What I have tried:
I am using Windows 8 Pro with Media Center. I know that the standard edition of Windows 8 doesn't provide a way (via GUI at least) to give user accounts full names. I've never used the the standard version of Windows 8 though, only Pro and Pro with Media Center.
Any help you guys could give me is very much appreciated. Sorry to make a fuss over such a minor problem, but a bug is a bug, and thus must be squashed.
TL;DR: 'Show full account name' (or something like that, forgot its actual name) is missing from the 'Options' menu in Windows 8 Task Manager.
Thank you!
I've got a very minor problem regarding Task Manager in Windows 8. Under the 'Options' menu in the Menu Bar, I am missing an entry which allows you to Enable/Disable whether the Full Name (which you can give to User accounts via Computer Management > Local Users and Groups > Users) of User accounts is displayed next to their account name (which you give when you create a new User account). If you enable this, the full name of the User account is then displayed beside the Account name in the 'Users' Tab in Task Manager.
For example: You make a new User account called 'Johnny' but you give the account a full name as 'John Smith'. Under the 'Users' tab in Task Manager, the name 'Johnny' is displayed. If you enable showing the full name, it then says in Task Manager: 'Johnny (John Smith)'.
I believe the Option to enable/disable this in Task Manager is called 'Show Full Account Name' or something similar to that (I can't check as I don't have the option in my Task Manager anymore). It can usually be found underneath 'Show history for all processes' under Task Manager's 'Options' menu.
This is not the first time the entry has disappeared from Task Manager for me. I fresh installed Windows 8 yesterday on my new laptop to find after installing all Windows Updates and Drivers, moving on to configuring the OS to my preference, the option was not there. On my desktop however, after doing the exact same procedure for it, the option was there, so I had it enabled. When I returned there later (a few weeks or so), the full name was still displayed next to the account name in Task Manager, but the option to disable it was no longer there, so I couldn't hide the full account name thereafter. Very strange as I've not done anything to my knowledge that could of caused the entry to randomly vanish. On the last fresh install of Windows 8 on my desktop (when I was unaware of such an option in Windows 8's Task Manager), I believe when looking through the menus, the option wasn't there, but as I wasn't aware of its existence in the first place, I didn't know it should have been.
It's a very minor bug in Windows 8, but it's one of the many niggles in the back of your head that really irritates you. I find it very annoying myself as the option shouldn't randomly vanish, especially on clean installs.
Does anyone know what causes this? Or how to restore the entry without re-installing Windows 8? I shouldn't have to resort to that for such a minor bug.
What I have tried:
- Removing full name for all accounts, reboot, re-apply full names, reboot.
- dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth (required to fix a bug that Windows Update KB2821895 causes that breaks sfc /scannow. I tried this after finding that the entry in Task Manager wasn't there).
- sfc /scannow (performed after dism fix - problems were found, but only regarding the Windows Store that is present on any Windows 8 fresh install, even without any Windows Updates. This was successfully fixed by sfc /scannow).
- sfc /scannow performed again to double check (no problems found).
I am using Windows 8 Pro with Media Center. I know that the standard edition of Windows 8 doesn't provide a way (via GUI at least) to give user accounts full names. I've never used the the standard version of Windows 8 though, only Pro and Pro with Media Center.
Any help you guys could give me is very much appreciated. Sorry to make a fuss over such a minor problem, but a bug is a bug, and thus must be squashed.
TL;DR: 'Show full account name' (or something like that, forgot its actual name) is missing from the 'Options' menu in Windows 8 Task Manager.
Thank you!
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