This post shows students and new users the steps to finish a task in Windows 11 to stop or kill a crashed process that affects system performance. Windows Task Manager is a tool for monitoring and managing applications and systems processes.
If you are in situations where an app is unresponsive and frozen, you can use Task Manager to kill the runaway process that slows down your PC. There may be other applications that can be used to end a task in Windows, but Windows Task Manager is simple, efficient, and already installed.
It can be frustrating to have an application that is not responding. Instead of shutting down your PC to regain control, which can cause you to lose your work, you can simply force close the problematic application or process.
Here’s how it does it.
How to force close an application in Windows 11
As mentioned above, Windows Task Manager can be used to view and manage tasks, system performance, and more.
If you have an application that is not compatible with Windows and it frequently freezes your computer, you can use the Windows Task Manager to end it.
First, open the Windows Task Manager. There are several ways to open Task Manager in Windows.
Alternatively, you can press CTRL + SHIFT + Esc to open it, or press CTRL + ALT + DELETE and select Task Manager from the screen that appears.
If Task Manager opens in simple mode, click More details to open an enlarged and detailed window.
After expanding the Task Manager to show more details, you will see a list of processes in the Processes tab and information about the amount of CPU, memory, disk activity and network bandwidth used by each process.
The unresponsive app should appear in the process list. Find the application, usually the one that uses the most resources, and click the Final task button.
When the task or process of a program ends, it will force the program to close. You will also lose any unsaved work if the program was forcibly closed at the end of its process.
You should do that!
conclusion:
In this tutorial we have seen how to end the task or process of a program in Windows 11. If you find any errors above or have something to add, use the comment form below.
