Windows 11 gets option to end process directly via taskbar

Windows 11 gets an option to stop a process directly from the taskbar. This is a break from previous versions of Windows, where this was only possible via Task Manager. The function does not work yet.

Twitter users saws the new feature is available in build 25300 and higher, although it does not work there yet. In those builds of Windows, users will see the new feature when they right-click on an open task in the taskbar. In that menu it was previously possible to close a window, but not to actually end a process. That is possible in the future.

Previously, users had to close a task through the Task Manager. For many years, this intermediate step has been the only way to truly conclude a process. The new feature is not yet available to everyone. Users of the ViVe tool can manually invoke this with the command vivetool /enable /id:42592269, although the functionality is still missing.