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Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
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[File Locksmith] Request confirmation on closing processes #21807

Open htcfreek opened 1 year ago

htcfreek commented 1 year ago

Add a warning/confirmation message that is shown when you close the process owned by a different user or the system/nt-service, ... user? Originally posted by @htcfreek in https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/21688#issuecomment-1302507429

The warning/confirmation message should prevent users from losing data or crashing the system.

We can have the following message cases:

We can also add a setting to warn only for processes that are critical or belongs to an other user.

htcfreek commented 1 year ago

@jaimecbernardo, @crutkas Can you please delete the spamm comments.