diff --git a/src/host/input.cpp b/src/host/input.cpp
index fd92154020c..952d3a02915 100644
--- a/src/host/input.cpp
+++ b/src/host/input.cpp
@@ -321,28 +321,35 @@ void ProcessCtrlEvents()
         return;
     }
 
-    auto Status = STATUS_SUCCESS;
+    const auto ctrl = ServiceLocator::LocateConsoleControl();
+
     for (const auto& r : termRecords)
     {
-        /*
-         * Status will be non-successful if a process attached to this console
-         * vetoes shutdown. In that case, we don't want to try to kill any more
-         * processes, but we do need to make sure we continue looping so we
-         * can close any remaining process handles. The exception is if the
-         * process is inaccessible, such that we can't even open a handle for
-         * query. In this case, use best effort to send the close event but
-         * ignore any errors.
-         */
-        if (SUCCEEDED_NTSTATUS(Status))
-        {
-            Status = ServiceLocator::LocateConsoleControl()
-                         ->EndTask(r.dwProcessID,
-                                   EventType,
-                                   CtrlFlags);
-            if (!r.hProcess)
-            {
-                Status = STATUS_SUCCESS;
-            }
-        }
+        // Older versions of Windows would do various things if the EndTask() call failed:
+        // * XP: Pops up a "Windows can't end this program" dialog for every already-dead process.
+        // * Vista - Win 7: Simply skips over already-dead processes.
+        // * Win 8 - Win 11 26100: Aborts on an already-dead process (you have to WM_CLOSE conhost multiple times).
+        //
+        // That last period had the following comment:
+        //   Status will be non-successful if a process attached to this console
+        //   vetoes shutdown. In that case, we don't want to try to kill any more
+        //   processes, but we do need to make sure we continue looping so we
+        //   can close any remaining process handles. The exception is if the
+        //   process is inaccessible, such that we can't even open a handle for
+        //   query. In this case, use best effort to send the close event but
+        //   ignore any errors.
+        //
+        // The corresponding logic worked like this:
+        //   if (FAILED(EndTask(...)) && r.hProcess) {
+        //       break;
+        //   }
+        //
+        // That logic was removed around the Windows 11 26100 time frame, because CSRSS
+        // (which handles EndTask) now waits 5s and then force-kills the process for us.
+        // Going back to the Win 7 behavior then should make shutdown a lot more robust.
+        // The bad news is that EndTask() returns STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL no matter whether
+        // the process was already dead, or if the request actually failed for some reason.
+        // Hopefully there aren't any regressions, but we can't know without trying.
+        LOG_IF_NTSTATUS_FAILED(ctrl->EndTask(r.dwProcessID, EventType, CtrlFlags));
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/server/ProcessList.cpp b/src/server/ProcessList.cpp
index e304556692a..e01e20bb8de 100644
--- a/src/server/ProcessList.cpp
+++ b/src/server/ProcessList.cpp
@@ -211,9 +211,15 @@ ConsoleProcessHandle* ConsoleProcessList::GetOldestProcess() const
     {
         termRecords.clear();
 
+        // The caller (ProcessCtrlEvents) expects them in newest-to-oldest order,
+        // because that's how Windows has historically always dispatched these events.
+        auto it = _processes.crbegin();
+        const auto end = _processes.crend();
+
         // Dig through known processes looking for a match
-        for (const auto& p : _processes)
+        for (; it != end; ++it)
         {
+            const auto p = *it;
             // If no limit was specified OR if we have a match, generate a new termination record.
             if (!dwLimitingProcessId ||
                 p->_ulProcessGroupId == dwLimitingProcessId)