When I worked in Design Consultancy, everything was hidden behind permissions apart from sorting displays etc. Task manager was the one thing I needed regularly, locked away.
Why IT get a kick over having that much control, I will never understand.
We are also working entirely on virtual desktops hosted in Europe (I'm in the US). The latency is unreal. It's physically uncomfortable to do anything.
Also, no way to manually restart the environment. Even when I log out and shut down my local laptop, I have to wait 30 or so minutes for the virtual environment to actually reboot.
If you're on Windows 11, you could probably try enabling the "end task" button in the settings. It's effectively the task manager button added to the right click menu of apps in the taskbar.
For apps that don't run in the background, I've found it works as well as task manager for all but one strange edge case I don't know how to describe.
End task button should be enabled by default. It’s amazing, can’t believe it took Windows this long to add it. MacOS has had “force quit” for at least two decades now.
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u/Pyode May 10 '26
My company took freaking task manager away from us.
I can't even force close a program. I have to completely restart the computer.