Comments for What's the difference between Closing and Killing a program?

Comment from David Chapman on 2008-11-18

2008-11-18T18:44:34Z

V useful pointer, as usual. Thanks Leo.

The d/l page says that procept is for Win 2000. Is it OK for XP SP3, please.

Regards

DAVID

I have an urgent problem that procept might solve: please could you find/make time to give me an answer ?

"procept"?? Process Explorer, procexp.exe, works in XP and Vista all service packs.

- Leo
20-Nov-2008

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Comment from RJ on 2008-11-17

2008-11-17T20:42:27Z

From what I can tell, using "End Task" from the Applications tab is just the same as clicking on the [X] button. You attempt to close the program, so it tries to go through it's orderly shut down.

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Comment from John R on 2008-11-17

2008-11-17T15:15:23Z

Mike, that's what I would hope. But sometimes hitting End Task doesn't end the task, yet that task can be ended by ending its Process. I am curious how End Task could ever fail to end the task.

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Comment from Mike on 2008-11-16

2008-11-17T07:59:34Z

I think the Applications tab shows only the things you can see (like the browser you're using to view this page), while the Processes tab show all running processes. I think there's no real difference between killing in the Applications tab (hitting End task) or killing the same process in the Processes tab.

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Comment from John Chamberlain on 2008-11-15

2008-11-15T13:29:56Z

Brilliant metaphor, Leo, and spot-on, as usual. Now, can someone explain to me the difference between forcibly ending a task or application (e.g. via the Applications tab of Task Manager) and killing the underlying process or process tree (in the Processes tab)?

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