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.
Your computer comes with many preloaded programs. Some of these might be running in the background, take up space, and you probably might never need them.
To uninstall such programs, click Start , then select Control Panel , right-click Programs and Features. A list of all apps appears. Uninstall the apps that you do not need. The browsing history when using Internet Explorer is stored in your PC. More so, after installing something, all the information is stored on the PC. It is crucial that you free up space.
To free this space, open This Computer My Computer , right-click your main drive, open the Windows Folder inside that folder, you will find another folder named Temp.
Right, Click on the Temp folder, select Details in the View option. Delete all the files that are older than the current date. Assuming this works, you'll get a window with a [program name] is not responding heading, usually with options like Check for a solution and restart the program , Close the program , Wait for the program to respond , or End Now in older versions of Windows. Tap or click Close the program or End Now to do just that.
We have one last trick to force quit a program, but it's an advanced one. A particular command in Windows, called taskkill , does just that—it kills the task you specify, completely from the command line. This trick is great in one of those hopefully rare situations where some kind of malware has prevented your computer from working normally, you still have access to Command Prompt , and you know the filename of the program you want to "kill. Open Command Prompt.
There's usually no need to open an elevated Command Prompt , and any method you use to get it open is fine. Execute the taskkill command like this:. If in the very rare situation that you don't know the filename, but do know the PID process ID , you can execute taskkill like this instead:.
If you get an ERROR response that says that a process was not found , check that the filename or PID you used with the taskkill command was entered correctly. The first PID listed in the response is the PID for the program you're closing and the second is usually for explorer.
If even taskkill doesn't work, you're left with having to restart your computer , essentially a force-quit for every program running Software programs and apps sometimes stop responding and won't close on Apple, Linux, and other operating systems and devices, too.
It's certainly not a problem exclusive to Windows machines. On a Mac, force quitting is best done from the Dock or via the Force Quit option from the Apple menu. In Linux, the xkill command is one really easy way to force quit a program. Open a terminal window, type it, and then click the open program to kill it. To force quit an app on iPad and iPhone devices, double-press the Home button, find the app you want to close, and then swipe it up as if you're tossing it right off the device.
Android devices have a similar process: swipe up from the bottom of the screen and then swipe the unresponding app up even further, off the screen. Or, for some Android devices, tap the square multitasking button, find the app that's not responding, and then toss it off the screen Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile.
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