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human
ELI5:What is the difference between closing a program and ending a task?

Why is it that I can hit close program 20 times, and then task manager can close it in one click?

It can be especially frustrating when a screen is frozen on the desktop and opening task manager doesn't help because it won't show up in front of the frozen program.




Why don't they just put an "end task" option on right click?
gpt
Close program asks the program nicely to finish whatever it is doing, and quit.

End task is the operating system putting a knife in the program's back and killing it.

Depending on your program, end task can be a very bad thing - the program doesn't do what it's supposed to do when shutting down, or it may be in the middle of performing an important task. For this reason, they make it intentionally more difficult to kill a program.