Why does ending a task from task manager work better than canceling a program?

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When a computer starts to freeze or operate slowly and doesn’t respond, ending the task(s) from the task manager usually ends the program and the problem. Why does this work better than simply canceling the task with ALT+F4/pressing the cancel button in the window?

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It doesn’t. Killing a program this way is like stopping a car by firing a rocket at it instead of turning the traffic lights red.

You stop the car both ways, but one way is guaranteed to be ok to drive after, and the other might not depending on if your rocket hit the car or just the road in front.

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