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the naughty application and click End Task, or right-click on the application

and select End Task from the context menu. Be careful when using this

feature! There is no “Are you sure?” prompt, and it’s easy to accidently close

the wrong application.

There are two other handy buttons on the Applications tab:

• Switch To enables you to bring any program to the front (very handy

when you have a large number of applications running).

• New Task enables you to run programs if you know the executable.

Click New Task, type cmd, and press ENTER, for example, to open the

command-line interface.

Because applications are processes, they are also listed in the Processes

tab. Right-click on an application and select Go To Process to open the

Processes tab and see which process (or processes) is running the application.

Processes If you really want to tap the power of the Task Manager, you

need to click the Processes tab (see Figure 12-6). Since everything is a

process, and the Processes tab shows you every running process, this is the

one place that enables you to see everything running on your computer.

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