BleepingComputer.com: How To Close A Misbehaving Program

How to Close a Misbehaving Program

Guide Overview

The purpose of this guide is to teach you how to end a program that is not responding.

Tools Needed

• No tools needed.

Instructions

• Press "control" + "alt" + "delete" together.
  
• This will open the task manager.
  
• A list of programs that are running on your computer will appear. If the status of the program is "not responding", the program has crashed.
  
• Click on the name of the misbehaving program once.
  
• Click "end task".
  
• The "end task" dialogue box will appear, telling you that the program is not responding.
  
• Click "end now" to close the program.
  
• Exit the task manager by clicking the X in the top right hand corner of the window.

Keep in mind, sometimes if you wait a few minutes, or start another application and leave the hung application along, sometimes the hung application will start responding again, such is the case with Internet Explorer sometimes.