Here is something that hasn’t changed much in Windows for decadesand Windows 11 is no exception in this regard. I’m talking, as you might guess, about managing processes and how to terminate them when necessary. As a general rule, for this we can close applications using their controls, and we can close windows by simply clicking on their upper right corner, which is fast and convenient, which is why this model has been maintained for so long.

However, sometimes (sometimes less, sometimes more) the application or window stops responding and as a result cannot be closed in the normal way. This is the moment when it is necessary to resort to the task manager, of course or for those who love the command line, use Windows “kill”, i.e. “taskkill”, along with the name of the application or the identifier of the process (if you did not know, the “tasklist” command of Windows offers a list of processes, each with its ID, similar to Linux with “ps”).

The problem is that you may want to close only one of several windows with the same application, but fine-tuning the shot both with Task Manager and with the combination of tasklist + taskkill is the most complicated, apart from forcing us to open the manager or the console, something that it can persist if the process we want to remove affects the overall performance of the system, which unfortunately happens routinely.

In some contexts, this problem occurs practically in a witness way or even does not exist, but in others it is quite or often necessary to resort to one of these solutions, but fortunately, this seems to be changing soon. This is what can be deduced from the findings shared by PhantomOcean3 via his Twitter account in message in which we can see option in the context menu of Windows 11 to end the process. More precisely, it is in the menu that appears when you right-click on the application icons displayed on the taskbar.

This new feature is in Windows 11 build 25300, released a few days ago for insiders, but At the moment it is hidden and not listed in what it contains. However, and as is usual in these cases, we can unlock it (if we are in the insider program and have the build, of course). For this you will need to use ViVeTool (here we explain step by step how it works). Once you have everything ready, use the following code:

vivetool /enable /id:42592269

This way you will be able to try the process killing feature directly from the context menu of its icon in the taskbar of Windows 11. At the moment there is no information about when it will make it to the final version of the operating system, but it does not sit I doubt that it is a small but formidable a novelty that many of its users will welcome with open arms.