Is ending processes bad?

[Swedeishmeatball]

When applications freeze up on me, I tend to just end the process. I start up ctrl alt delete and then i end the process that is frozen. I have heard that this can cause instability within windows and the program itself. Is this true?



Come to think of it I have to fresh copy my windows every half year. Not cuz of spyware or anything.

 

[444]

Onr thing it might do is not save properly for example... like with Word if you press the X it asks you to save whereas if you force-close the file probably not saved... this applies to other applications and their (sometimes important) files as well. Of course there's not much else you can do if a program freezes up, the warning is to use the X if you can and not just wantonly force-close stuff when they're not frozen.

 

[djnes]

It's not really a problem, unless it's Windows components you do this to. Then you need to figure out why they are freezing. The only problem might be, if you force quit a program, it might not run properly when you try to start it up again...until you reboot.

 

[Wildfire]

Theres nothing wrong with ending processes, but use it as a last resort. If you can't get the program to close, unfreeze, etc... then by all means ending the process is the best way to usually get unstuck.