Home > Computing Windows 11 Can End Tasks Right From the Taskbar—Here's How to Enable It The new 'End Task' button on the taskbar eases this process, but it's not enabled by default.

As these could crash often without any warning, the End Task feature can function as a convenient kill switch that helps users shut down errant applications without having to open Task Manager.

Windows users may know about the Task Manager that allows you to see CPU and memory usage of each task, but Chrome has one of its own as well.

You're using the new Windows 11 Task Manager, but you like the old Task Manager better? No problem: With this trick, you can start the old task manager immediately.

Currently, forcing a task to end in this manner requires that you fire up the Task Manager, locate the relevant task, select it and end it.