system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What occurs when I end an unresponsive program on a Task Manager. why does it take so long?
gpt
Because you're doing it wrong.

You're clicking "End Task" which is a middle ground that lies somewhere in between gracefully closing the program, and actually forcing it to close immediately.

Instead, you want to Right-Click on the application that you want to end, then click 'Go To Process' and click the 'End Process' button.

You will notice this is what you were expecting; it immediately forces the process to close without making any attempt to wait for a response from the process.

You can also do this from the command line:   taskkill /f /im "chrome.exe" will immediately kill all instances of Google Chrome.