Determining the Task Status

  The Status column in the Work in Progress dialog box
  displays the current status of your task.  The status can be
  one of the following:

  Status         Meaning
  Starting       Application is starting but is not yet displayed.

  Active         Task is currently execute.

  Pending        Task cannot execute because you have exceeded
                 the number of tasks you are allowed to execute.  If
                 several other tasks are executing, this status changes
                 to "Active" when those tasks are completed.

  Done           Task is complete.

  Stopped        Task has been requested to exit but is not terminated
                 yet.

  Show Output    Task has produced output.  To display task output,
                 click on the Show Output button.

  Additional topics:

  *   Canceling Tasks

  *   Looking at Task Output