Subj : Windows 11 gets a nifty tweak to kill frozen apps, catching up wi
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu May 25 2023 17:30:03

Windows 11 gets a nifty tweak to kill frozen apps, catching up with macOS

Date:
Thu, 25 May 2023 16:14:22 +0000

Description:
Apple has allowed users to swiftly force close unresponsive apps for ages, so 
its about time Microsoft sorted this out.

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 Windows 11 is getting the ability to kill an unresponsive app, known as 
force closing (or force quitting) right from the taskbar in whatll be a very 
useful tweak for the OS. 

This functionality was previously spotted hidden in test builds of Windows 11 
, and caused a fair bit of excitement at the time, so its good to see 
Microsoft confirm it is indeed inbound. 

The move represents a far more convenient and easy way to deal with a 
misfiring app than the current scheme of things in Windows 11, where you have 
to head into the Task Manager and hunt around a bit to accomplish the same 
feat. 

 The Verge reports that Microsoft let us know that the ability is coming to 
Windows 11 at its Build conference for developers. 

Quite a bit of stuff has been announced at Build, in fact, and a bunch of 
minor but important changes along similar lines  like native support for 
dealing with RAR or 7-Zip files in Windows 11 (instead of having to download 
and install a third-party utility). 

And of course theres a huge change that has been announced, one were viewing 
with a little trepidation  namely the introduction of AI into Windows 11 in 
the form of Microsofts Copilot. Analysis: Mirroring the Mac  finally 

So, whats the big deal here? When apps go rogue and freeze up, they can 
simply hang around, slowing down your systems performance (perhaps) and 
generally being annoying. 

To force close such an unresponsive app right now in Windows 11, you have to 
open Task Manager, which is a bit of a faff in itself, unless you know the 
keyboard shortcut (press Control+Shift+Escape together). Then you must scroll 
through the list of running processes to find the rogue app, select it, and 
click the End Task button. 

With the new option, all you have to do is right-click on the app in the 
taskbar, and select End Task from the context menu  a far easier and quicker 
way of taming the application thats gone awry. 

As Mac users will realize, this exact ability is something present in macOS, 
so Windows 11 is catching up to Apples desktop operating system in that 
respect  and its about time, to be honest.



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-11-gets-a-nifty-tweak-to-kill-frozen-ap
ps-catching-up-with-macos


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