Terminate app: Taskbar 'Stop app' or 'Terminate app' button

[mikemaccana]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Rather than remembering a keyboard shortcut, it would be nice to be able to click an app in the taskbar and select**Stop app* from the UI.

Eg, I'm in Edge right now, underneath 'Close window' should be 'Stop app' or 'Terminate app' or similar.

crutkas:
Idea from #5581 is to do shift+alt+f4 as keystroke to force termination as well

[crutkas]

I'm going to make this the "official" terminate program issue for tracking :)

[crutkas]

Look at #212 as it links to an existing possible solution

[crutkas]

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/e7zhyk/petition_to_have_microsoft_add_a_force_quit_to/ has 1.2k comments on it. :)

[mikemaccana]

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Spec: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/doc/specs/Terminate%20Spec.md

Things to think about

• xkill - point and click kill window
• xkeynavkill - combination of the above but kills the process under the mouse

[crutkas]

sorry, was trying to add clarifying info. What i'm trying to do is have the initial issue list all the relevant information versus having everyone go through countless comments and append on stuff from other issues. We have lot of issues that ask for the same thing or slight variants.

If you have a better way of bubbling up information, all for working together. One idea is to close your issue out, open a new issue so we can do the above. I would rather have you credited with the initial issue however.

FYI: History does show who edited what and how it was edited. this is a screenshot from a non-logged in user and it clearly stats I edited it and how i edited it.

[DanielRosenwasser]

Something that drives me nuts are UI widgets that have no clearly associated program, like this anchored bar that won't go way once I've projected to wireless display.

Similarly, it frustrates me to no end when a program's tooltip just won't go away, and I can't figure out how to get rid of it or which program needs to be killed to get rid of it.

If these problems are never getting fixed within Windows, I really really hope that these are considered core scenarios for this PowerToy.

[crutkas]

@DanielRosenwasser in theory, if we did the xkill w/ mouse, that should do it.

[michael-hawker]

sorry, was trying to add clarifying info. What i'm trying to do is have the initial issue list all the relevant information versus having everyone go through countless comments and append on stuff from other issues. We have lot of issues that ask for the same thing or slight variants.

We have this issue with the Toolkit and I know WinUI does as well (FYI @stmoy). It'd be really nice if GitHub could provide a top-level comment pin or something so that we could better highlight 'specs' by the maintainers, but also leave the original request from the OP underneath it.

FYI @nat

[michael-hawker]

I was just thinking too that if PowerToys Run also displays/searches for the running task, their listings could also expose the terminate option there. :)

[ghost]

Can we name it PowerKill?

[ghost]

or PowerTerminate

[Jay-o-Way]

I see this is a serious candidate for a new PowerToy and the name is not decided yet. I want to coin "T-800" or "Uncle Bob". 😁😎

[qidouhai]

确实是需要的功能

[catalin560]

so was this ever implemented or not?

[Armin2208]

Microsoft could be implementing this in a future Windows 11 build.

[Jay-o-Way]

@Armin2208 cool!
What's the source?

[quangkieu]

@Armin2208 cool! What's the source?

Here is the news I read about
https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/02/16/windows-11-taskbar-will-soon-let-you-quickly-kill-an-entire-task-or-process/

[crutkas]

Built into windows now! Thanks everyone for helping give us the data to prove it was a good idea :)

currently in windows insider builds.

[quangkieu]

Built into windows now! Thanks everyone for helping give us the data to prove it was a good idea :)

currently in windows insider builds.

How about quick restart/suspended/resume of the application?
As when app frozen, I would like 1 click button to auto force close app and start new process
For suspend and resume, it is for controlling the heavy consume app, different from Eco mode

[mikemaccana]

Nicely done! Thanks @crutkas!