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Is there any way to kill or force closed a particular hanging window or hanging application by selecting it with some hotkey? Similar to Ctrl+Alt+Esc and select window in Ubuntu?
(I may be misremembering the exact key shortcut used in Ubuntu; I just remember some key combination does that.)
ukanth
Posted 2009-11-05T14:18:29.583
Reputation: 9 930
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Ctrl+Shift+ESC to show Task Manager, on the Processes tab, right-click the offending process and choose "End Process"
Personally I replace Task Manager with Process Explorer (from sysinternals), better list navigation and you can use the Del key to kill a process.
invert
Posted 2009-11-05T14:18:29.583
Reputation: 4 918
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Alt-F4 or click the close button. If the app doesn't respond within a few seconds, Windows XP (and probably everything after that) will show a dialog where you can kill it.
Aaron Digulla
Posted 2009-11-05T14:18:29.583
Reputation: 6 035
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You can also use tskill.exe from run menu or command prompt.
TSKILL processid | processname [/SERVER:servername] [/ID:sessionid | /A] [/V]
processid Process ID for the process to be terminated.
processname Process name to be terminated.
/SERVER:servername Server containing processID (default is current).
/ID or /A must be specified when using processname
and /SERVER
/ID:sessionid End process running under the specified session.
/A End process running under ALL sessions.
/V Display information about actions being performed.
Faiz
Posted 2009-11-05T14:18:29.583
Reputation: 130
This answer is more to the point. :-). – briealeida – 2009-11-06T10:40:45.227
Task Manager accepts the Del key too. – user1686 – 2009-11-05T15:33:42.573
I think downvote for 'Task Manager', it sucks but upvote for Process Explorer; it's full of win. So, you just get this comment. :-). – briealeida – 2009-11-06T10:41:32.433
How do I know which of those process is my window? – Colonel Panic – 2013-04-02T15:01:27.517