• Ace@feddit.uk
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    I’ve noticed that sometimes when I press End Task in task manager on an app that’s hanging, the app doesn’t close; but if I press End Task again a second time, sometimes that works. Is there a difference between the first time I click it and the second time? I wondered if the first time requests the app to close itself, while the second time overrides the app and just kills it. Is that true?

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      4 months ago

      There’s an old addage when working with any Microsoft product:

      “Wait longer”

      In other words, your first click was probably doing its thing. You just needed to wait a little longer to see it work.

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        4 months ago

        The wonders of running everything synchronously in the UI event loop…