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Exit An Unresponsive Program In Vista
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Most people who use Windows have likely experienced an unresponsive program. When a program becomes unresponsive, you can wait while Windows attempts to identify and correct the problem.
Alternatively, you can use Windows Task Manager to manually end the program. The downside of ending a program this way is that your unsaved changes will be lost — for example, any unsaved changes in a Word document would be lost.
To end an unresponsive program using Task Manager:
- Right click the Taskbar and click Task Manager.
- Click the Applications tab.
- Select the program that is not responding and click End Task.
2 Comments
Sean
September 19th, 2008
at 10:10pm
What if you can’t access task manager (frozen?)
salasrcp90
August 24th, 2009
at 11:39pm
this happened to me a few minutes ago, i was making a wallpaper in Corel’s Paintshop Pro and all of a sudden when i was merging the layers the screen whited out, and the horrible error message came out. fortunately i was able to recover the wallpaper because while the screen was whited out i moved the error message to the side and took a quick snap shot of my screen before i ended the program. then i took the snapshot back into paint shop and worked my magic to recover what i almost lost. the wallpaper is now a fraction of the size but at least i was able to recover it.