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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Computer engineer here!
When you exit a program, it tries to do some clean up before it shuts down completely. If the program is already having problems, it may not even recognize that you asked it to shut down and never gets to that step. As a result, it either doesn’t quit or it takes a long time.
One of the things your operating system does is pause and resume different programs really quickly so that you can run multiple things at one time (like listen to music and surf the internet). When you kill a task through the task manager, you are telling the operating system to remove that task from its todo list and give back the RAM.
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