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Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Won't Let Task Manager Close: Here's What to do

For now, Microsoft has given a temporary workaround. Users affected by this can manually close each process running in the ...

Task Manager bug surfaces after the latest Windows 11 update

Windows Latest took a closer look at the bug and found that each instance takes up about 25 MB of working memory, so after a ...

Closing Windows 11’s Task Manager accidentally opens up more copies of Task Manager

One reason to use the Task Manager in Windows is to see if any of the apps running on your computer are misbehaving or using ...
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Task Manager Is Cloning Itself on Windows 11

Open up the Terminal (PowerShell or Command Prompt, either works), then paste in the following command: taskkill /im /taskmgr ...
Ars Technica

Find and kill a process in a batch file

Is there a way to do this? I want to look for a certain process, and if it is discovered then I want to send it to the taskkill command running in a loop to ensure it never comes back as long as I'm ...
Lifehacker

Create Quick-Kill Shortcuts for Runaway Applications

Got an unstable application that you can't give up for whatever reason that also freezes up on you regularly? Weblog CyerNet details how to create quick-kill shortcuts for specific applications using ...