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No Mercy (files.catbox.moe)
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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 4 months ago

Been a while since I've been on Windows but I distinctly remember some button to kill a task without waiting. Maybe they removed it to make Windows soooo much more user friendly.

[-] Rev3rze@feddit.nl 8 points 4 months ago

Off the top of my head: right click the task and hit end process. That has literally never failed me. Back in windows XP it might sometimes not actually kill the process but then there was always the "kill process tree" button to fall back on.

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

Yep, typically "Kill Process Tree" was like the nuke from orbit. You'll likely destroy any unsaved data, but it works nice when steam has 12 processes running at once.

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

The normal Windows task manager's 'end task' button just politely asks the app to close - but then later will tell the user if the app is unresponsive, and offer to brutally murder it instead.

There is also the sysinternals Process Monitor, which is basically 'expert' version of the task manager. Procmon does allow you to just kill a task outright.

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