Patent ID: 8488140

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a holding unit that holds a table for managing a characteristic according to a shutdown of the image forming apparatus for each kind of task; a display unit that, when an instruction to shut down the image forming apparatus is provided, distinguishably displays cancelable tasks and tasks which cancellation is prohibited based on a type and a processing state of each of tasks in the image forming apparatus with reference to the table; a setting change unit that performs a setting change for each setting of the cancelable tasks displayed by the display unit in order to resume after the next power-on of the image forming apparatus, wherein the setting change unit designates, as the setting change, (i) a nonvolatile storage area of the image forming apparatus in which data corresponding to the cancelable task is stored or (ii) time information of the cancelable task to be resumed; a cancellation unit that cancels the cancelable tasks; and a processing unit that controls the image forming apparatus so as to perform processing for the shutdown in a case where either the setting of the cancelable tasks is changed or the cancelable tasks are cancelled by the cancellation unit and processing of the tasks which cancellation is prohibited is terminated, wherein the display unit, when the instruction to shut down the image forming apparatus is provided, further distinguishably displays a task that does not need to be canceled as operation state information based on the type and processing state of each task in the image forming apparatus with reference to the table.