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Jun 02

Forcefully Terminate Programs Windows XP/Vista/7 [How To]

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This quick tip is in response to a couple of readers’ questions on how to forcefully kill a program.

Sometimes a program will hang up and wont close. You can use task manager to kill the process or you can run a simple command. Learn how to do both of these in this guide.

Use Task Manager to Terminate a Program

To use task manager to terminate a program, do the following:

  1. Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open the task manager
  2. Find the frozen process and right click the name
  3. Click End Process

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  4. Exit the Task Manager

Use the Command Line to Terminate a Program

Sometimes you just want to use the command line; to use the command line to terminate a program, do the following:

  1. Press WINKEY+R to Open the Run dialogue (Start, type run, click run)
  2. Type cmd and hit Enter

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  3. Type taskkill /f /im process.exe (process exe is the frozen process’s name)
  4. Wait for confirmation and exit the command line

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