How exercise I kill a program that hung with an always-on-top fullscreen window?

Raymond

Apr 25th, 2017

Has this ever happened to you? You lot're hard at work blasting zombies being super-productive with a program that has an e'er-on-meridian fullscreen window. So the program hangs. How tin you get to Task Director and then you can kill the hung programme?

Ane way to practice this is to launch Task Managing director and use keyboard accelerators to become it to be always-on-top:

  • Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and say that you desire to run Task Manager. Chore Managing director volition run, but information technology'due south covered past the ever-on-peak fullscreen window.
  • Whenever you need to run into Chore Director, use Alt+Tab to select Task Manager and hold the Alt for a few seconds. This will requite you lot a preview of Job Manager so you can see what state it is in. You can't interact with it, but yous can at least see it.
  • If Task Manager is in compact manner, then press Alt+D to exit of compact fashion into details mode. If you lot're the sort of person who likes to open Task Director a lot, you are probably already in details manner.
  • Type Alt+O followed past Alt+D to enable Always on Superlative.

Yous at present have an always-on-acme Chore Manager, and you tin now use it to select the hung program and terminate it.

But here'due south a shortcut: Use virtual desktops.

  • Press Win+Tab to call back the switcher.
  • Click the + to create a new virtual desktop. This gives you a make clean desktop with cypher on it. In particular, the hung application is not on this desktop.
  • Run Task Manager on this new virtual desktop and use information technology to terminate the hung plan.