The Windows system processes section, located at the bottom of the list in Windows 10 Task Manager, contains several ...

P rocess Explorer, part of the Sysinternals Suite, is a powerful alternative to Windows Task Manager. It provides detailed ...

To improve performance on Windows 11, you can safely end processes like unused apps, bloatware (e.g., Copilot, Phone Link), high-resource processes, and peripheral-related programs via Task Manager.

If you want to close an instance of a program, open Task Manager, look for that program, right-click on it, and select End Task. In case your system still says that an instance of that program is ...

If you want to end a program immediately — for example, because it froze — select it in the list and then click on the menu item “End task” at the top. The current task manager also ...

However, users who have installed the latest optional update, KB5040527, will note that it no longer warns about the process not responding before it stops a task. Even handier! Well, call it a ...

Currently, forcing a task to end in this manner requires that you fire up the Task Manager, locate the relevant task, select it and end it. Apart from being more long winded, it also introduces ...

Once this setting is enabled, you can simply right-click on an open application in the taskbar to end a task. It’s super useful. Further reading: 10 obscure Windows features that will blow your mind ...