When an application isn’t responding, the obvious response is to attempt to close it with the red “X” in the top right corner of the application window, but often if the app is frozen or otherwise unresponsive, that button is likewise unresponsive and accomplishes nothing. At this point, you might try to right click on the app icon in the taskbar and select “Close Window”, which (in my experience) seems to work more often than the red X does. However, sometimes neither of those solutions does anything at all and the only option left is to open Task Manager and instruct Task Manager to shut down the process, which typically works immediately. So why the hell doesn’t Windows just run whatever script is executed by Task Manager when I press the red X or select “Close Window”? Why are there three seemingly unique approaches to ending a process with varying levels of success when the developers of Windows are clearly fully capable of designing one which works in all cases?
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Imagine you’re in a crowded grocery store.
Hitting the close button is politely saying excuse me to the person in front of you. Normally, the person hears you and moves. It may take them a moment to adjust their cart or stop what they’re doing but they’re able to get to it pretty quick.
Now imagine the person in front of you is on the phone. They’re super busy with their task, they don’t hear you. It doesn’t help that the store is crowded and loud. You could wait and hopefully they process that someone is behind them waiting, or you could take the task manager approach which is essentially chanting a Ludacris song while shoving past them.
Scenario 1. No hard feelings between you and the person. When you might again things are cool.
Scenario 2. Because of the negative interaction, there may be issues next time you cross paths.
Edit: Windows is trying to aim for scenario 1 when it can.
Close window closes/terminates the processing tree/requests/PIDs. When you go straight to the Task Manager 90% of the time you’re going to have some sort of reputable session so the account just pregs off of your permissions.
Like, if you were running an app in windows 10 as an admin and try to close it, it’ll reject because it reflects the binaries of your REG files.
Basically, like was said… It’s like clicking the “x” is saying close from some persistence due to the processing. However, when you’re the teacher and you click the “x” you know damn well every PID better stop immediately. 😂
It’s confusing to explain. Gotta understand the layers to understand it.
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