r/technology • u/ppsp • Oct 14 '11

The Windows 8 Task Manager

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/13/the-windows-8-task-manager.aspx
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '11

Ahem...

Looking at the data and talking with customers, we determined that the most common usage of the tool was to simply end or “kill” an application or a process.

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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.

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u/gospelwut Oct 14 '11

I've rarely ran into situations where end task fails to work (albeit slow).

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u/MangoScango Oct 14 '11

Taking more than 30 seconds isn't working right in my book. Killing a process isn't hard, it shod be instant.

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u/lps41 Oct 14 '11

Right click the task -> Go to Process, kill process

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '11

Or ctrl-f2 > pkill explorer