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Kill an application pronto

There is a little-known context menu option in Task Manager that helps kill applications more quickly than "End Task".  Right-click on the application in the Applications tab and select "Go To Process".  This brings to you the correct process on the Processes tab, at which point you can right-click and select "End Process" or "End Process Tree".  This kills the process immediately w/o the wait that's associated with the "End Task" option.  (I believe "End Task" respectfully asks to process to end itself and if it doesn't respond after some time, it then prompts you to kill it.)

This is unnecessary when there is only one instance of the application you want to kill; however, sometimes you may have several instances of an application (IE, for example) and you don't know which process is associated with the application you want to kill.

Posted: Jul 13 2003, 10:31 AM by jeffreykey | with 3 comment(s)
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# July 13, 2003 11:31 AM

bilbo baggins said:

it don't work for me mate :(

I had opera running and it hangs and nothing kills it.. i have to reboot
# October 1, 2003 4:39 AM

Jeff Key said:

I've had that happen a couple times, too, but it does seem to work 98% of the time. Not sure what puts some apps in a state where they can't be killed. Would be interesting to find out.
# October 1, 2003 8:38 AM