When shutting down a computer and the “X app is preventing the computer from shutting down” prompt appears along with a “Shut Down Anyway” button, why does the computer shut down anyway without pressing said button?

Question

Clearly, the app *isn’t* preventing the shut down or, at the very least, the user’s authority is not needed to “shut down anyway.” What’s happening?

Edit: thanks everyone!

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Answer 1

when you close a program your asking it to close, it then should save whatever files it wants(things you’ve edited and configuration files) wipe caches, finalize file transfers and what not.

if you use task manager to ‘end task’ your telling to the operating system to stop processing that application, essentially ‘killing’ it without waiting for the application to close it’s self.

this is what ‘shut down anyway’ does.