Is there any difference between Taskmgr.exe and LaunchTM.exe?

Question

Is there any difference between Taskmgr.exe and LaunchTM.exe in Windows? Both of these System32 executables seem to just open the Task Manager. If there is no difference then why have two different System32 executables that do the same thing?

Answer 1

For all intents and purposes, both executables do the same thing which is to open the Task Manager. A minor difference is that when opening the Task Manager via CTRL + ALT + DEL, LaunchTM.exe launches Taskmgr.exe as a child process.

The end result when running either executable from the command line is the same.