How can the Task Manager in Windows or Force Quit in macOS close frozen, suspended, unresponding programs instantly. What do they do different than clicking the X button in the corner?

Question

How can the Task Manager in Windows or Force Quit in macOS close frozen, suspended, unresponding programs instantly. What do they do different than clicking the X button in the corner?

In: Technology

Answer 1

X: Ask your friend to close the door.

ForceQuit: Close the door yourself.

To clarify further, the X tells the program that it should close itself. If the program isn’t responding, it might not be able to run the internal commands it has set to perform to close. ForceQuit forcefully terminates the process using OS specific mechanisms and cleans up the resources.