The only way to terminate an application in Windows when it freezes is to open the Windows Task Manager and terminate it this way. It sometimes works by right-clicking the application in the Windows Statusbar and selecting close but this option is usually not working. It can also happen that it takes some time before the Windows Task Manager comes up. Even then it might be problematic to close the frozen application.
Windows xKill is a port of the Linux xKill program to Windows. The application is fully portable and sits in the Windows Taskbar after startup. The global keyboard shortcut [CTRL ALT Backspace] will load the application and display a skull and crossbones that is following the mouse cursor. The next click on a window or application will automatically terminate the instance.
Pressing [ESC] will close the application again which can be useful for testing purposes or when the application terminated in the meantime.
The software program uses a little bit more than 4 Megabyte of computer memory while running and can be useful to terminate frozen applications faster than usual.
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Taskbar Shuffle allows killing by middle (mouse wheel) click.
Process Lasso adds restraining to killing, what is important too, I think.
Hi,
MS provide the “tasklist” and “taskkill” commands that will list and kill tasks from a DOS box. Not a very user friendly way to do it but effective :)
Readers of ProReviewer will know I like Daphne which is a Windows Taskmanager replacement and is effective at killing processes, either from the Daphne GUI or by dragging and dropping a “Kill” target onto the process window.
Regards,
Barry Cleave
Try the original, not the copy !
http : // wixkill.free.fr kill your bothering process since 2006
Here is another free tool with similar capability. It is written using the AutoHotkey script language and is non-resident:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#Kill