gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » xkill http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:53:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows xKillhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/18/windows-xkill/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/18/windows-xkill/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:22:29 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7703 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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