April 25th, 2017 Has this ever happened to you? You’re hard at work blasting zombies being super-productive with a program that has an always-on-top fullscreen window. And then the program hangs. How can you get to Task Manager so you can kill the hung program? One way to do this is to launch Task Manager and use keyboard accelerators to get it to be
always-on-top: You now have an always-on-top Task Manager, and you can now use it to select the hung program and terminate it. But here’s a shortcut: Use
virtual desktops.  I am playing a modded skyrim so even as stable as my game is CTDs and shenanigans just happen from time to time. The problem I have is that since I upgraded to win 10 my game will never gracefully crash. Any CTDs will leave me unable to successfully alt tab leaving me with a black dead program. And when I open the manager it will not bring itself to the fore front of the screen. It stays behind the crashed program rendering it fucking useless. The same is true for all the other programs I have had even one hangup with. Win 7 had it working just fine. It would force itself to the front of the screen. I don't get how we are moving backwards with stuff like this. I've been using Windows forever, but one thing that has annoyed me is how hard it is to terminate misbehaving full-screen applications. In Linux, I can just switch over to terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and use the terminal to forcefully close a misbehaving program. In Windows, this seems to be only possible using task manager. If a frozen window is set to stay-on-top and full-screen mode, Alt+Tab and Alt+F4 don't work and I can't even use the Task Manager. If I had important work in the background, say, and I'd forgotten to save it, I can't just restart the computer! What do you do in this circumstance?
phuclv 23.9k11 gold badges103 silver badges208 bronze badges asked Aug 15, 2013 at 9:54
10 Use AutoHotKey and bind a shortcut to
I compiled this one-liner to an .EXE which you can download here.
answered Aug 15, 2013 at 10:36
nixdanixda 26.2k17 gold badges103 silver badges150 bronze badges 3 If you're using Windows 10, you can switch to another desktop using Win+Tab and then open the task manager in desktop 2 to kill the full screen application in desktop 1. This works even if the application is set to stay-on-top. answered Dec 18, 2016 at 17:03
sveinungfsveinungf 3493 silver badges3 bronze badges 4 This happened to me today on Windows 10 when the Snipping Tool froze while making the capture selection. I was able to get the Task Manager to show up by the following:
answered Sep 28, 2016 at 22:38
zjayszjays 1691 silver badge2 bronze badges 2 Try using command prompt. You can kill tasks using command prompt just like Linux terminal.
E.g.: If you want to kill notepad, type
phuclv 23.9k11 gold badges103 silver badges208 bronze badges answered Aug 15, 2013 at 10:22
HarikrishnanHarikrishnan 1,6541 gold badge14 silver badges28 bronze badges 6 If task manager won't come to the front, it's possible "always on top" is unchecked. Ctrl+Shift+Esc to bring it open, hit Alt, and you should see the file menu of the task manager appear. Press → to go to options, ↓ to select always on top, and Space to enable it. answered May 5, 2017 at 4:41
3 The easiest way is to Cntrl + shift + esc and then when it opens go into the process (little triangle bottom right) and right click "task manager", you can set it to always be in front, this brings it forward where you can access it.
Abraxas 4,2265 gold badges29 silver badges47 bronze badges answered Apr 2, 2016 at 14:05
1 If you can start Task Manager with Ctrl + Shift + Esc, but it isn't displayed because the culprit software is full screen, here is something you can try. Use Alt + Tab to give the Task Manager focus. You still won't see it, but now it can accept keyboard input. Use your cursor to hover over Task Manager's icon in Windows' Task Bar: this will hopefully cause the Task Manager to be revealed. Now use your keyboard to end the process: this can usually be done by pressing the Arrow Keys to reach the culprit application, then press Delete. You might have to press Tab once to put focus on the application list first. answered Jun 4, 2016 at 11:34
Protector oneProtector one 1,2863 gold badges19 silver badges27 bronze badges 2 I had to hit the Windows key, then in the search bar, type:
phuclv 23.9k11 gold badges103 silver badges208 bronze badges answered May 17, 2018 at 15:03
2 Pressing the following sequence should work if screen snip or a similar program freezes: Alt+PrtScn then Alt+F4 I may have done ❖ Win+Tab And sent the app to a new desktop before this so try both for luck! If this doesn't work, I suggest a reboot.
Run5k 15.4k24 gold badges47 silver badges62 bronze badges answered May 14, 2020 at 22:47
Here's a little autohotkey script with GUI, which will TERMINATE a process instead of peacefully closing it, so instead of answered Mar 26, 2019 at 12:42
ShayanShayan 1,2565 gold badges19 silver badges27 bronze badges I found an unconventional solution in Windows 10; I pressed the Windows key (the only thing that was still responding at the time, the snipping tool had taken over the whole screen), and I told it to restart. It popped up a screen where it tells you what programs the restart is waiting to close, I waited for 5 or 10 seconds and then canceled the restart. Only a few programs remained open, and the Snipping Tool was finally closed. I don't know if everyone's computer will give the user adequate time to allow programs to close and then cancel, if your computer is fast it might restart quicker. I am not sure. answered Oct 23, 2020 at 15:56
I had this issue with Snipping Tool. I couldn't resolve it with any of the above but finally tried using a Snipping Tool keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Print Screen) and that somehow kicked it out of whatever it was stuck in.
phuclv 23.9k11 gold badges103 silver badges208 bronze badges answered Sep 14, 2018 at 18:37
1 Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged windows-7 windows windows-8 task-manager kill or ask your own question.How do I change the layout of Task Manager?To switch Task Manager to its normal display mode, double-click the top border of the window.
How do I turn always on top?To make the active window always on top, press Ctrl + Spacebar (or the keyboard shortcut you assigned). Press the keyboard shortcut again to disable “always on top” for the active window. For script options, right-click on the AutoHotkey icon in the system tray.
How do I move Task Manager to another screen without a mouse?One way to do this is to launch Task Manager and use keyboard accelerators to get it to be always-on-top:. Hit Ctrl + Alt + Del and say that you want to run Task Manager. ... . Whenever you need to see Task Manager, use Alt + Tab to select Task Manager and hold the Alt for a few seconds.. |
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