Do you want grid lines to be turned on by default?

[hanemach_gt]

Just curious. I find this very useful. I don't know to what extent does it affect performance of the program.

[Hotrod]

Me too. 

[Jeremy Collake]

Interesting! I will change the default!

[edkiefer]

The grid being set to default is better but to me this kind of setting is so easy to set in menu it shouldn't be a issue IMO .
I voted the I don't care one in poll , but grid is better IMO .

[bertie97]

I like the grid.
Can the color & line display be changed? Zebra stripes/alternating colors, different line widths & colours etc 
Or would that be bad for performance? 

[hanemach_gt]

I like the grid.
Can the color & line display be changed? Zebra stripes/alternating colors, different line widths & colours etc 
Or would that be bad for performance?

Making every second line's background light-gray would be excellent for me, though it's completely optional (same grid lines are sufficient). I believe this would not affect the overall performance greatly, if the color were hard-coded in PL (not read from INI or registry).

[Jeremy Collake]

FWIW, my INI files are read with my own algorithm, not using the old Windows 3.x APIs that go retrieve a single value at a time. I read the entire file at once, parse it, and write it back out all as singular operations. I use an INI file only because it's something familiar and is less complicated to edit and parse than is XML.

The setting could be stored in the registry fine. There's no reason to go check to see if it changed every time I drew a line. So, it wouldn't affect performance either.

If I do create a custom drawn listview though it will take a larger effort. You see, turning on grid lines is easy. That is compatible with all Windows themes and theming applications. My own listview drawing code may not be, and requires more than a couple color selections. There would also have to be selections for what color when highlighted, or when rolled over for hotclickable listviews, etc.. In other words, not anytime soon will I make more extensive changes. Too many things ahead of that. Besides, if you want a Task Manager, check out Windows 8 Task Manager. If you want Automation and Optimization, check our Process Lasso. I can't imagine writing an interface superior to that of Windows 8's Task Manager, that thing is darn near perfect as far as showing you what you want to know. If you want to know more, well there are apps for that too, including the built-in Windows Resource Monitor. When you've learned what you need to know, then tell Process Lasso to go enforce it ;p