I'm writing a tool to fix various windows annoyances, but I'm having trouble with the Windows Task Manager.
One of the first things I do on a new machine is to expand the task manager so it looks like it's supposed to instead of that useless simplified "process list" only version that's the default with new Win 11 machines.
I think this key might be the right one: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TaskManager
The problem is that it only has a "preferences" value that appears to be a long binary string. Is there a way to detect if that's a data structure and what kind? If there's any way to adjust that to leave all settings alone except for the expanded view vs min view?