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Friday, July 30, 2010

How To Stop A Frozen Program

By John Stewart

A lot of people now a days are surfing the internet and are download and installing a lot of different types of programs from a lot of different sources. Now for the most part this isn't of any concern as long as you are getting your programs from trusted websites that are known to be safe in the public domain.

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.

When a program hangs it can be really annoying not just because it tends to freeze up your entire computer but also because it will kill your level of productivity if it happens enough times throughout the day. So what's the solution? To kill the program that is hanging (by kill I mean to stop the program from running). But why exactly does one program hang on one computer but not on another? To break it down into simpler terms, it really has to deal with your computers specifications and its own unique problems.

Now I'm going to show you 2 different techniques. The very first one is to open up your task manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc at the same time and then to click on the tab that says "Application". Now when you are in that tab you will see a list of the applications that are running with their current status. If an application that you suspect is "hanging" (or is frozen) is on your computer then its status will be labled as "Not Responding". If you have a program that is not responding and you will like to stop it, just click on that application so that it is highlighted and at the bottom of the windows click on the button that says End Task. 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 cautiously.

Now, the second best way to kill an application is to simply right click on it when you are in the Applications tab of the Task Manager (remember Ctrl + Shift + Esc all at the same time) and click on Go To Process. This will then take you to the Process tab with the program highlighted. All you have to do now is to just right click on the program that is highlighted and click on the End Process Tree option. A bit of caution here: when you perform the End Process Tree option you are killing the program that is hanging and also the programs that are linked to it. Now, 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. Keep this in mind at all times when you want to use this technique.

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