It can work as a great task killer, App Killer and a generally quick process killer. It gives a list of running Apps, with a restart button and a force quit button next to each app on the list. If this shortcut fails to work, depending on the windows version you are using, right-click on the Desktop Taskbar.
If you are using Windows 8 and 10, the program is listed in the Name Column, in case you are using Windows 10 it will probably be under the Apps heading.
Many people opt to Click End Task at this stage. Although this is perfectly fine, I would advise you against doing it since you might not kill processes that were started by the program.
Continue to the following step, for a better effective way of force quitting a program and killing processes started by and connected to the program. Right-click the highlighted item, and select End Process Tree. Once you select the End Process Tree, a warning will appear. There is an End Process Tree button, at the bottom of the warning, click it. Windows Process Explorer can also be a great companion at this juncture since it shows a list of all current active processes, which accounts own them, and the handles that the processes have opened.
Since I have already described ways to force quit on windows, Let me be a little considerate and show Mac OS users some of the tricks they can use to force quit programs. If you have an unresponsive App, and you are not sure on how to force quit an App on Mac OS, you can use the following four most convenient and easiest ways.
Just follow these easy steps below. On the Upper left corner, click the Apple icon. Then, select Force Quit from the list that pops up. A Force Quit Applications window opens, and it has a list of all running Applications. The Activity Monitor monitors the resource consumed by running Applications. Next, on the upper-left corner of the Activity monitor Window, click the X button. Click the Force Quit Button and voila!
The above are the best ways to force quit unresponsive apps on either a Windows Computer or a Mac Computer. It is, therefore, important that you check whether your computer is running slow. Nobody likes waiting for a slow computer to perform even the simplest tasks. Do you? The following are 11 easy Tips if your computer is running slow. Keep in mind that some organizations want you to leave your PC running because updates and backups may be scheduled for the middle of the night.
You can set the power button to put your system in hibernate or standby mode via Windows' Power Options. To open Power Options, press the Windows key, type "power options," and press Enter. Click "Choose what the power buttons do" in the left pane, click the menu next to "When I press the power button" and make your selection: Shut down, Hibernate, Sleep, or Do nothing. If Windows seems to take forever to turn off your PC, check out my post from March titled " Shut down Windows in an instant.
Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. This is actually a very useful program for many people because you can startup 4 to 5 of your favorite apps and then save a snapshot, which you can them simply restore at any time by using the program.
It can even restore Explorer and Internet Explorer windows to their previous locations on the screen. That way instead of having to click on 5 different icons, etc, you can quickly start up applications using SmartClose. Another really nice feature about SmartClose is that you can configure it to shutdown or stop Windows services also.
Once you have it installed, you can begin by creating a snapshot and closing all programs, restoring a snapshot restore apps , or changing the program settings. If you just want to shut down applications and not worry about snapshots and restoring, you can uncheck the appropriate boxes. You can also prevent the program from closing IE windows and from turning off Windows services.
I personally always uncheck the Stop Windows Services box because it turns off a couple of services by default that I normally would not turn off. You can edit this list by going to the Service Settings , which I explain further below. Clicking Next will bring you to the Protected Programs screen, which is also useful for this program because unlike Close All, which lets you choose the programs to close, SmartClose tries to close everything.
When you click Next, SmartClose will get to work and start shutting down all your programs. Overall, it was able to close all the programs in my test run, but it took almost a minute, whereas Close All was done in 2 seconds. I also tried restoring the snapshot after I finished and the results were pretty good.
It managed to restore about 11 out of 14 programs. The program also has a good number of configuration options as show below:.
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