gHacks technology news » hung application http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Automatically Kill Hung Applications http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/25/automatically-kill-hung-applications/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/25/automatically-kill-hung-applications/#comments Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:11:10 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/25/automatically-kill-hung-applications/ Windows can really sometimes annoy the hell out of me. Starting a new software that was recently installed and seeing it hang after the start with delayed reactions from the system can be really painful. Hitting CTRL + ALT + DEL and waiting minutes before the dialog pops up is not the number one solution to get rid of a process that is stuck in nirvana.

One way to get rid of those processes immediately or after a set time is to edit your registry and change one or two values there. I had the chance to test this on Windows XP only but it could be similar for other operating systems such as Windows 2000.

Open your registry and navigate to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop and change the value from the key ‘AutoEndTask’ to 1. If you want to set a time to wait until the kill process is executed you need to change the value of the key ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ to a value in milliseconds which means 1000 would be 1 second.

via: Technospot

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