How can windows task manager close frozen program which we cant by clicking on close button?

Question

How can windows task manager close frozen program which we cant by clicking on close button?

In: 27

Answer 1

Task manager just abruptly kills the program’s main process which cascades to kill all subprocesses (ideally) and cleans up the memory (ideally). Nothing talks to the program so it doesn’t matter what’s it doing. It’s sort of like plugging the electricity plug to your computer: it will just shutdown no matter what