Comments on: Windows: How to Quit or Exit a Frozen, Locked-Up, Nonresponding Program

By: Billy

Billy — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:58:35 +0000

You just saved my life!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Patricia

Patricia — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:46:13 +0000

thank u so much i will use this forever. it helped soooo much

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Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:25:32 +0000

Here’s how to close non-respondent apps. at shutdown time.

1. Launch RegEdit (select Start > Run, type regedit and click OK) and browse to HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelDesktop


2. Find the string called AutoEndTasks. Right-click it, select Modify from the pop-up menu, and change the data value from 0 to 1. (If you can't find this string, create it by selecting Edit > New > String Value and set the data value to 1.)

3. Close RegEdit and reboot.

By: hibrad2003

hibrad2003 — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:02:53 +0000

Ctrl+Alt+Del is the same as Ctrl+Shift+Esc, NOT Ctrl+Alt+Esc juss thought Id share :-D

By: AMCDeathKnight

AMCDeathKnight — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:55:35 +0000

Ctrl-Alt-Esc opened up Winamp for me lol.

Anyone know of a force quit tool for Windows?

By: davak

davak — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 04:19:30 +0000

Odd…

ctlrl-alt-esc does nothing on my system.

By the way, welcome to tech-recipes!

By:

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:26:49 +0000

seeing how this is meant to help those with little knowledge of a computer… id mention that Ctrl, Alt, Esc is the better combination (wont make your computer restart)….. I dont know how many ppl i see who are too impatient sit there and just pound Ctrl, Alt, Delete and then wonder why their computer is restarting.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 19:00:47 +0000

I only wish this worked all the time. Lots of the time it just hangs there and nothing you can do will shut it down. I think we got this with the new stability of XP. Older Windows would close anything even if it caused system problems.