About a year ago, we told you that Microsoft was preparing to integrate a very useful new feature into Windows 11 and that it would allow us to directly terminate processes and applications, without having to resort to “Task Manager”.

To use it, just do it right click on the icon on the taskbar of the process or application that we want to end, and then without further ado, click on the corresponding option. It will only take us a few seconds.

Without this feature, we would have to complete this process or application a more complicated process and we would lose more time: press «Control + Alt + Delete», enter «Task Manager», find the process or application we want to end, right-click it and end it.

How to Enable Task End Shortcuts in Windows 11

Fortunately, this feature is already available It is disabled by default, something that is hard to understand considering how convenient it is and what advantages it offers because, as we have seen, it saves us many steps in completing processes and applications.

If we want to activate it, we have to do the following steps:

• Let’s open the Windows 11 settings menu.
• Enter “System”.
• Now let’s go to the “For Programmers” section.
• We activate the “Finish the task” option.

Ready, now we can use the right mouse button so that the option to end the task appears directly in the various applications and processes that we have open, if they have an icon on the taskbar. You no longer have to resort to “Task Manager”.

I’ve been using this feature for a few days now and can attest to that it works perfectly. If you have problems with an app that runs full screen and therefore prevents you from seeing the taskbar, you can quit it by pressing “Alt + Tab” to access the taskbar, or you can also try using “Alt + Enter” to switching between windowed mode and full screen mode.

If none of that works, the classic “Ctrl + Alt + Delete” it usually doesn’t fail. You can use it to enter the “Task Manager”, but once you don’t have to search there for a process or application to end, you can right-click it directly on the taskbar.

In the case of applications or processes that crash and They don’t respond even before the icon is displayed This feature doesn’t work on the taskbar, but as I explained earlier, you can always use the “Task Manager” as a last resort.

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