How to End App Task or Process from Windows 11 Taskbar

Microsoft is testing a new “End Task” option in the Windows 11 build 25300 in the dev channel. With the help of this option, users will be able to end the entire task or process from the jump list without opening a task manager.

Right now, if you right-click on the specific opened app icon on the taskbar, the jump list only has the option to close the app window. The same option isn’t useful most of the time. Like, it cannot end the process or task for a particular app running in the background or when the app become unresponsive.

The addition of the End Task option in the Windows 11 jump list will make closing an app task a single-click process and save extra clicks that users have to perform to launch Task Manager and close the task from there.

Right now, the End Task option is hidden in the Windows 11 build 25300 and interested users have to enable it manually. Below in this blog post, let’s learn how to do that:

Before you start following the steps, you need to keep a few things in mind:

• The steps discussed below will add the End Task option to the Jump list, and it’s not working yet.
• It’s an experimental feature and there’s no guarantee that the same feature will be made up to Windows 11 OS.
• The feature is under development and unstable.
• To enable this feature, we’re going to use a third-party program.
• These features are highly experimental, so we recommend users try them on virtual machines and secondary PCs

How to Enable the “End task” option in Windows 11 Jump list- 25300

So if you made up to this part of the blog, then we presume that you’re aware of all the pros and cons, right? Let’s learn how to enable the new option

Download and set up ViveTool on your Windows 11 PC.

Launch the Command prompt with admin rights. For that, click on the Search icon and type CMD, when it Command prompt appears in the search results click to open it.

Here, you need to copy-paste this command: c:\vivetool\vivetool.exe /enable /id:42592269 and hit enter.

Once you get the message successfully set feature configuration, you need to reboot your computer to apply the changes.

After doing this, if you right-click on the app icon, there will be an End Task option in the Windows 11 Jump list.

You can restore the changes, by executing this command: c:\vivetool\vivetool.exe /disable /id:42592269

Isn’t killing the app task from Windows 11 jump list a convenient option? What do you think, let me know in the comments?

Thanks, PhantomOcean for finding and sharing this.