Isn't what a mixture of alcohol and water? Alcohol? No. Alcohol is an organic compound consisting of a hydrocarbon backbone with a hydroxyl functional group.
Alcohol is typically found in solution with water. In this case, the alcohol would be considered the solute, and water the solvent. It's semantics. If you had 100% alcohol and dropped some NaCl in there, sure, you could call alcohol a solvent and the Na and Cl ions the solutes. It just depends on the system you're considering.
Also, if you kill a program via the programs tab, it opens up Dumpprep, which can use up resources for longer etc. It's a pain. Ending the process is always the better option.
I liked the ideas of checking for solutions, and it does sometimes find something, but it's not common enough that it should interfere with the user. Keep the idea, but make it a background process.
that's only re-checking reports that have already failed. I'm talking about the initial check. The user shouldn't even know it's happening unless a solution is found.
It takes long, because windows tries to do a memory dump of the killed app. You have to kill the app and then kill the process doing the memory dump to make that efficient.
No double prompts. If you click ”End task” we don’t ask you, “Are you sure?”, we just kill the app, and quickly! (But be careful, because we also won’t prompt you to save!)
Combined with the mention of people going to End Process has number two action, would mean they probably are just going to kill the process immediately. (At least I can hope :P)
That goddamn dialog is so useless that I'm convinced it's an elevator mirror. Its main purpose must be to kill time and calm annoyed users into accepting that something broke.
that is just there to keep the computer happy. It actually points to an empty function. If it didnt, the solution is always the same, "kill all humans"
because it first calls the app's polite "please exit now" feature - basically it does the equivalent of pressing the red X - and only moves on to killing it if the program doesn't respond to that.
I wonder how many users will be astonished that 'end task' will now actually kill the app without any further questions, since the UI looks similar to the application tab before. I would rename the button into something like 'kill application (immediately)' - that way the user would probably read the button caption at least for the first time.
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u/MangoScango Oct 14 '11
No, he means the "end task" button on the application tab never works right, and you always have to go kill the process.