Killing A Frozen Program That Is Wasting Your Time

Many people are surfing the internet now a days and they are exposing themselves to a lot of different types of programs. For the most part this really isn’t a big deal assuming that you are getting your programs from reliable sources.

The problem arises when you are using these programs on your computer and they hang. When a program hangs it can really kill your level productive (if it’s happening way too often) and it’s just plane old annoying. So, what can you do to prevent this? Kill the application from running. By “kill” I don’t mean to delete it, all I mean is to just stop it from running and then restart the program all over again later on.

I’m not going to go into the details of how to use these error messages to completely stop your computer from ever hanging again as that takes a lot of detective work and time, but what I am going to show you in this article is how to stop a program from hanging for a really long period of time by killing it.

There are 2 different, but yet similar ways that I’m going to show you here. To start just open up your task manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc at the same time). What this will do is it will open up a window that will have a few tabs on it at the top of the screen. Now click on the tab that says “Application” and in there you will now see a list of the applications that are running with their current status. If there is an application that you think is “hanging” it will have a status that will say “Not Responding” under the area that is labled “status”. What your going to want to do now is to click on the application so that it is highlighted and at the bottom of the windows just click on the small button that says “End Task”. What this will do is it will kill the application. Now, keep in mind that if you have any unsaved work on your computer and you “end task” a program you will loose all of the unsaved data, so use this very cautiously.

The second way to kill an application is to right click on it when you are in the Applications tab of the Task Manager and click on Go To Process. It will then take you to the Process tab with the program highlighted. Just right click on the program that is highlighted here and click on End Process Tree. A word of caution here: when you perform an End Process Tree you are killing the program that is hanging and also the programs that are linked to it. If the program that you want to kill either has unsaved work or is important you should not kill it as you might stop other programs that are linked to it from running.

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