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Processes
Can ending processes (such as AIM, internet explorer, etc) instead of clicking 'end task' in the Applications tab in windows task manager be damaging to the computer? or is it all right to do?
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If you have an administrator account and end certain system processes (I believe this is only possible in normal administrator accounts in XP pro), your computer will shut itself down ("The system is shutting down. Please save... This shutdown was initiated by COMPUTERNAMESYSTEM...Message: [service] exited unexpectedly"). You can bypass the shutdown by going to start, run, and typing shutdown /a.
If you want to stop things from starting up, go to start, run and type msconfig. The startup tab is safe to mess with, and the services tab with "hide microsoft services" checked is usually safe. Leave the other tabs alone.
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No it's fine. It only warns you because if you end an important Windows process, your computer will stop working and you'll have to restart it. It's not a problem at all, what you're doing is perfectly ok. Any software that you've downloaded isn't an important windows process that has to be running for your computer to work right. I hope that makes sense. They only warn you in case you accidentally clicked something else. :)
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i dont think its possible to damage the computer with the task manager. well, other than clicking new task and starting a virus. anything you do is undone with the next restart. so yeah, it is safe to end applications that way. end process tree is better than end process.
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