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Closing an Unresponsive Program
Closing an Unresponsive Program
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del
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Windows
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programs
program
unresponsive
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Issue/Question
My program has frozen or is not responsive. What do I do?
Environment
Windows
Resolution
This will cause any unsaved work to be lost. Some of the work
might
have been saved by AutoSave depending on the settings and program. Inform the client that there is a possibility of data loss before you preform this task.
Press
Ctrl
+
Alt
+
Delete
.
Click
Start Task Manager
.
Find the application that is not responding and select it.
Click
End Task
.
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Article ID:
390
Created
Wed 8/13/14 10:32 AM
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Thu 8/6/20 2:07 PM
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Check out this article I found in the Client Portal knowledge base.<br /><br /><a href="https://td.wku.edu/TDClient/34/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=390">https://td.wku.edu/TDClient/34/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=390</a><br /><br />Closing an Unresponsive Program<br /><br />Instructions for manually closing an unresponsive program in Windows.