You can choose to end an individual process by
highlighting its entry and clicking End Process. In some cases, a process will spawn (create) other
processes. In this case, if you end only the host process, the child processes may continue to run. To
end the host process and all its child processes, you should right-click the host process and choose
End Process Tree from the context menu.
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Processes also have two properties that you need to consider. The first is priority, which affects the
order Windows runs the processes. Windows executes all higher priority processes first. When it runs
out of high priority processes to execute, then it begins executing those of a normal priority and,
finally, those of a low priority. You must avoid giving a user process a high priority in hope that it will
execute faster because you could prevent essential system tasks from running. To change the process
priority, right-click the process and choose an option from the Set Priority menu of the context menu.
The second process property is affinity, which is the group of processors used to execute an
application.
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