Discord
04-15-2007, 02:26 PM
Here's the situation:
1.) Good ol' Grinenshire is playing a game under WinXP.
2.) The game crashes.
3.) The poor user hits CTRL+ALT+DEL.
4.) The task-manager window appears in the middle of the screen overlaid with the last frame of the game. I.e. everything looks the same, except the rectangular area in the middle which can be detected by the fact of the mouse cursor moving over it.
At this point it's pretty hard to kill the task or the process through blind clicks or TAB and ENTER button coups. The only way out is pressing the OFF button which will close all the apps and perform the shutdown. A similar case just took place recently when the Task-Manager crashed completely. Shutdown still worked.
Now my question, any way I can kill the tasks without going through the whole restart progress or alternatively, is there any way I can kill all the running apps through a keyboard stroke combination, with intrusion of 3rd party software if necessary?
Any thoughts, ideas or whatsoever that might prove useful in the situation? Thanks in advance!:cool:
1.) Good ol' Grinenshire is playing a game under WinXP.
2.) The game crashes.
3.) The poor user hits CTRL+ALT+DEL.
4.) The task-manager window appears in the middle of the screen overlaid with the last frame of the game. I.e. everything looks the same, except the rectangular area in the middle which can be detected by the fact of the mouse cursor moving over it.
At this point it's pretty hard to kill the task or the process through blind clicks or TAB and ENTER button coups. The only way out is pressing the OFF button which will close all the apps and perform the shutdown. A similar case just took place recently when the Task-Manager crashed completely. Shutdown still worked.
Now my question, any way I can kill the tasks without going through the whole restart progress or alternatively, is there any way I can kill all the running apps through a keyboard stroke combination, with intrusion of 3rd party software if necessary?
Any thoughts, ideas or whatsoever that might prove useful in the situation? Thanks in advance!:cool: