Windows 11 may finally get an important feature; one macOS has had for years, according to a new report.
Apple’s macOS has long had the ability to force-quit a misbehaving app by right-clicking its icon in the dock. Unfortunately, Windows has not had a similar feature, at least until now.
According to Tom’s Hardwares’ Avram Piltch, Microsoft is finally bringing the feature to Windows 11, although it’s still relatively incomplete at this time:
In the latest Dev channel version of Windows 11, Build 23430, there’s the option to enable “End Task” if you go into the Settings->Privacy & Security->For developers menu. There, you can turn it on, but it doesn’t actually make the “End Task” option appear when you right click on taskbar icons and I found that the option didn’t even retain its “on” status when I closed and reopened the Settings menu.
Given the nature of the new feature, Piltch believes it may be aimed more at developers than everyday users:
It’s interesting that, based on its placement in the developer settings menu, Microsoft seems to view the End Task feature as an option that should be disabled by default and used primarily by programmers. Certainly, developers would benefit from being able to force quit apps they are working on as testing your apps and watching them freeze is a big part of the debugging process.
Once Microsoft finishes rolling the new feature out, it’s a safe bet many users will enable it.
