Most users of Windows They know the standard way to close an applicationeither by clicking on the button with the X in the upper right corner of the program window or by right-clicking on its icon in the taskbar and, from the pop-up context menu, selecting Close the windowBut in cases where a program stops responding, the process is much more cumbersome.
Requires access to Task Managerusing the key combination Ctrl + Alt + Del and then select it from the options that Windows presents. Next, identify the process that corresponds to the program in question, which does not have to have the same name, and right-click on it to, in a new menu, choose Finish homework.
There are quite a few steps, but give better results than the Close Window option which can leave processes open in the background of the program that you wanted to stop. This is what happens, for example, with TeamsYou can close the app window, but Teams continues to run in the background.
Microsoft introduced late last year in Windows 11 a new option that greatly simplifies this process, in fact, reduces it to just a couple of clicks. Since version 23H2 of the operating system, users have the option to completely end a program without having to access the task manager and do it quickly from the taskbar. The problem is that it is an option for developers who by default it is disabled.
How to enable the End Task option in Windows 11
Enabling this option in Windows 11 is not complicated and will probably save you a lot of time and clicks with programs that tend to crash. Once enabled, The new option will appear next to the Close Window option in the context menu of the app icon on the taskbar.Going back to the Teams example, if you select it, you will completely stop the app and it will not be available again until you start it again.
To activate End Task, you must follow these steps:
- Enter the Setting of Windows 11.
- Choose System and then For programmers.
- Activate the slider in the section Finish homework.