When we enter the world of Office automation, there are many new factors that we can find that could make us lose all initial interest . Apart from understanding how programs work, it often happens that they suddenly stop working.
In the following article we are going to go into this topic in depth and we are going to explain how to force, exit or close a program that does not respond in Windows.
How to Force Quit or Close an Unresponsive Program in Windows
In previous articles we were able to explain how you can set programs like Exel or Word as default . And you could realize that it was very easy to do it, in the same way we are going to teach you what you should do when at one point a program gets stuck and we can’t find a way to close it.
And this is very common to happen, especially when we have several programs and applications open at the same time on our Windows system . But it also usually happens due to poor performance of our equipment or program errors. Sometimes we can get out of this problem if the program shows us a pop-up message asking if we want to close the program .
But in most cases this lifeline is not shown to us and we have by all means shut down this program. This is the reason for this article, to teach you in simple steps how to solve some problems that seem to have no solution. And then we are going to show you how to force, exit or close a program that does not respond in Windows.
How to force quit or close an unresponsive program in Windows
The next solution that we are going to apply to be able to force, exit or close a program that does not respond in Windows is this. In principle we are going to go to the taskbar, this is at the bottom of our desktop. In any part of it, we are going to position the cursor and we are going to make a right clip to show us the options.
When doing this we must choose the Task Manager option , after this a window with several tabs will appear on the desktop. Also to have access to the task manager we can do it through the keyboard shortcuts . And then we are going to press the Windows key and then without releasing we press the R key.
This action will allow the Run window to be displayed and we will write the following command, taskmgr.exe and then click on the OK option. And in this way we will also enter the task manager . Once we are here, we will see that it will show us the Applications tab.
How to use Task Manager to close a program
And we can see which applications or tasks are running at the moment, so what are we going to do with this. Well it’s very simple, here we just have to look for the program or application that is having problems. That is, the one we want to force, exit or close since it does not respond in any possible way.
After we have selected it, we are going to go to the bottom of this window and we are going to make a clip in the End task option. This action should stop the program, but sometimes this action also does not allow you to close the program. But don’t worry, we have an ace up our sleeve.
If this were to happen, we select the program we want to stop again and we do a right clip. In the options that will appear, we must choose Go to the process, this will take us to the Processes tab and we look for the program to choose it. Then we go to the bottom right and make a clip on Finish process .
Another window will appear, asking us if we want to end the program and again we will select End process. And in this way the program is closed forcefully, now we will only have to exit the task manager. And without further complications you have learned how to force, exit or close a program that does not respond in Windows.
