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  Anonymous

  4 years ago

  I only wish this worked all the time. Lots of the time it just hangs there and nothing you can do will shut it down. I think we got this with the new stability of XP. Older Windows would close anything even if it caused system problems.
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  Anonymous

  3 years ago

  seeing how this is meant to help those with little knowledge of a computer... id mention that Ctrl, Alt, Esc is the better combination (wont make your computer restart)..... I dont know how many ppl i see who are too impatient sit there and just pound Ctrl, Alt, Delete and then wonder why their computer is restarting.
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  davak

  3 years ago

  Odd...
  
  ctlrl-alt-esc does nothing on my system.
  
  By the way, welcome to tech-recipes!
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  AMCDeathKnight

  3 years ago

  Ctrl-Alt-Esc opened up Winamp for me lol.
  
  
  Anyone know of a force quit tool for Windows?
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  hibrad2003

  2 years ago

  Ctrl+Alt+Del is the same as Ctrl+Shift+Esc, NOT Ctrl+Alt+Esc juss thought Id share :-D
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  Anonymous

  2 years ago

  Here's how to close non-respondent apps. at shutdown time.
  
  
1. Launch RegEdit (select Start > Run, type regedit and click OK) and browse to HKEY_USERS.DEFAULTControl PanelDesktop

2. Find the string called AutoEndTasks. Right-click it, select Modify from the pop-up menu, and change the data value from 0 to 1. (If you can't find this string, create it by selecting Edit > New > String Value and set the data value to 1.)

3. Close RegEdit and reboot.
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  Patricia

  5 months ago

  thank u so much i will use this forever. it helped soooo much
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  Billy

  1 month ago

  You just saved my life!!!!!!!!!!!!
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