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Windows Explorer Probs : Close All Not-Responding Applications with a Single Click

March 20, 2011 Leave a comment

Scenario : You are working on your Windows OS and Suddenly due to no fault of yours the System Hangs and stops responding to your actions. How do you easily isolate the non responsive program and kill it ??

Solution : Anyone who has never faced this problem, raise your hands!!!! :). From time to time Wndows OS screws up, and gets stuck on some non-responsive program that refuses to go away. Any user of Windows will vouch for it, that one crashed/hung application results in the whole ‘explorer.exe’ process going down, sometimes even leading to the dreaded BSOD ( blue-screen-of-death).


Though With Win7,  Microsoft has managed to resolve these issues fairly well. But still Win7 does tend to crash, and applications do become unresponsive, or get hung up, though not as often(Thats the Saving Grace!!!!). At such times, the user is left with the only solution of having to open task manager, kill the non-responsive application and then  restart it. Simple enough ??

But what if your system hangs up with all applicatons nonresponsive and task manager refuses to open. What do you do ?? Read more…