The tips below should work in any version of Windows. Enjoy!<\/p>\n
Windows borrows a feature from Linux. Taskkill allows you to terminate a running process (program) from the command line. Here\u2019s how you use it:<\/p>\n
Press Windows Key + R\u00a0and type CMD and press Enter. The command utility window opens.<\/p>\n
Type Tasklist at the prompt. You\u2019ll see a list of running processes. Next to each process you\u2019ll see a PID number. To kill any running task, type Taskkill \/PID xxx (where xxx represents the PID number of the task you want to terminate). Make sure you leave a space between Taskkill and the slash. Also, leave a space between PID and the number, for example Taskkill \/PID 4204<\/p>\n
Why would you want to use this? Because you can? Or maybe your computer is frozen and you can\u2019t access Task Manager. Or maybe just for fun?<\/p>\n
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Click Start\/Run. Type \u201ccontrol userpasswords2? (without the quotes) in the command line, and press Enter.<\/p>\n
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You can access Task Manager by right-clicking on your taskbar and choosing Task Manager, you can user CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, or you can use the three-finger salute (CTRL+ALT+DELETE). Did you know that you can also create a shortcut to Task Manager and leave it on your desktop, drag it to your quick launch toolbar, or taskbar (Windows 7 & newer) or put in on your start menu? You can, and it\u2019s easy to do.<\/p>\n
Right-click on your desktop and choose \u201cNew\u201d \u201cShortcut\u201d and copy and paste the following (in bold) into the \u201ctype location of the item\u201d field:<\/p>\n
%windir%\\system32\\taskmgr.exe<\/p>\n
Once you\u2019re created your shortcut, you can drag its icon to your start menu, quick launch bar, taskbar (Windows 7, Windows 8.x, Windows 10) or simply leave it on your desktop. The next time you need to launch Task Manager, just click your new shortcut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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