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Windows is generally not known for its stability. Among other things there are frequent "Not Responding" applications. The reasons may vary from less RAM to Viruses to poorly designed applications. How about ending hung applications with just a single click? you can do so. Just follow along: Right click on the desktop and choose New > Shortcut.

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Windows is generally not known for its stability. Among other things there are frequent "Not Responding" applications. The reasons may vary from less RAM to Viruses to poorly designed applications. How about ending hung applications with just a single click? you can do so. Just follow along: Right click on the desktop and choose New > Shortcut.

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Cool Windows Apps & Tricks How To Kill Unresponsive Programs without The Task Manager

Home May 14, 2009


By Varun Kashyap

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Windows is generally not known for its stability. Among other things there are frequent Not Responding applications. The reasons may vary from less RAM to Viruses to poorly designed applications. So what do you do when an application hangs up? I bet you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del or fire up the task manager in some other way, reach for the application and choose End Task. Now there is nothing wrong with this approach, in fact as long as it gets the job done it doesnt matter how you do it. However, ever had the situation where the task manager itself takes ages to load up? Of course it can happen because task manager does a lot of other things besides just ending tasks so it requires that much more resources. Apart from that, how about ending the hung applications with just a single click? Yeah! you can do so. Its simple to achieve. Just follow along: Right click on the desktop and choose New > Shortcut

In the dialog box that appears just type the following: taskkill.exe /f /fi status eq not responding

Give it a name of your choice

Now just wait for something to start Not Responding and let loose your Task Killer! So what did we do exactly? We just created a shortcut to run a command. The command being taskkill. Whenever you double click the shortcut you will invoke the said command which takes care of the rest. In particular the command we use says that kill all taskes whose status is equal to not responding and kill them forcefully (/f).

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The /fi switch is used to filter and pinpoint the application to kill. We are using the Programs status to filter the applications that are not responding and then kill them. You can filter(and thus kill) by memory usage (equal to, greater than, less than or not equal to), cpu time, window title and others.

In case you are wondering that its still not quite the single click situation, you can enable single click from within Folder Options, or better still right click on the shortcut you just created, choose properties and assign it a shortcut key! Do you know of some similar neat tricks?

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