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[shadowx]

There can be a lot of things running, particularly if you have had the system for a while and bits and pieces of programs get left behind that trigger various processes and what not.

But it will get you out of a lot of trouble. Especially when something crashes and the "End Now" just doesant work, which is most of the time actually... but "End Process" completely kills it regardless of its state. Also useful if explorer.exe crashes (thats when you open a folder and it just crashes or the start menu/task bar crashes or disappears) If you kill the process explorer.exe the start menu and taskbar will go away, then just go "New Task" and type explorer.exe and it will all come back within a few seconds. A lot quicker and easier than waiting minutes for it to come back and safer than holding in the power button and restarting the machine.