Application or Process

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Geoff Lane

On the Task manager what is the difference between an application and
a process?

If I open Task Manager many of the processes are EXE files, many of
which I have regarded as programs.

Geoff Lane
 
Simplest explanation is a process has no user graphic user interface to
interact with, while an Application will have one.
 
Geoff said:
On the Task manager what is the difference between an application and
a process?

If I open Task Manager many of the processes are EXE files, many of
which I have regarded as programs.
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An Application is something you have launched yourself (or had done for
you at startup; not part of the system. Processes are much more
general, including a lot of services and the like operating
semi-autonomously from the system. They will usually have been
launched from .exe files
 
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