Force a program to close manually

[Adamaris]

I am windows user. I need some tip from any of you to force windows to close the non responsive or frozen program.Sometimes when i use the windows task manager it just wont terminate the process. Many times it happens while shutting down to Pc, a dialog box appears saying “This Program has stopped responding” and i have End Task or wait to allow more time Windows to terminate the program or task. So is there any way i can force windows to close the programs ?

[FlashX]

You can use taskkill.exe with the /F parameter. "TASKKILL /F /IM notepad.exe" would kill notepad -- you can kill by application name, PID, or window title.Or set the value of “AutoEndTasks” to 1 if you want force exit or force close any unresponsive programs automatically. to do so, go through this steps:-

• Open the command prompt and type regedit and press Enter.
  
• In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following folder:
  
  

  HKEY_USERS\Default\Control Panel\Desktop

• Now search for “AutoEndTasks” registry key on the right panel and double click on the key and modify the Value data to 1.
  
• Click on OK.
  
• Restart the Windows to effect the changes.

[Dodger]

You can even kill the program from Konsole window but you need to do is find the Process ID for doing this. To do so, try this steps:-

Type ps -e | grep NameOfProgramYouWantToKill in the konsole window.

Sometimes the name of the program not obvious or not what you expect it to be. So type ps -e and scroll through the list to find it. Once you find it, you'll notice a number beside it, on the left.

Now type the Kill + number of the process and enter. Thats it !!

[Arzaan]

Thanks for sharing tis useful info guys. I was also facing this problem sometime, but i got rid of it. If you've ever wondered why pressing the power button on a modern PC makes it shutdown a lot quicker than going to start and choosing shutdown, its because the former forces the applications to close NOW.