How to close an unclosed program. How do I close a program if it doesn't close? Features, methods and recommendations

Hello everyone, Dear users! Currently, the most common operating system is Windows. And it is written for her great amount various programs... The trouble is that the overwhelming majority of software from independent developers is not tested very thoroughly, so problems with software freezing, and the computer itself as a whole, are not rare.

But what can I say - even software from professional developers and big brands, sometimes, also presents the same unpleasant surprises. What to do in such cases and how to close the program if it does not close? There are several proven ways, among which you can certainly find the best one for your individual case.

How to close a program if it does not close - proven and working ways

So, let's list the most common, proven and working ways to close a frozen program in the operating room. Windows system... Some of them are quite lightweight and do not require any special knowledge. Others assume average PC ownership. Some methods make it possible to continue working in the operating system without rebooting, with a second attempt to start the frozen program. Others leave no choice but to restart the computer:

1. The first method is the most common, but only relevant in those cases when you have free time... This way is just waiting. After the program has frozen, it is enough to wait from 5-10 seconds to 5-10 minutes. Most often, a frozen application either closes itself or continues its work in an ordinary normal operation... Games, software for PC maintenance, work programs - all this often requires serious resources and if the computer does not instantly cope with the increased load, you can observe such freezes. You can wait a bit and the software will continue its work;

2. The second method is also quite common. If you cannot close a frozen program with a cross at the top of its window, you can select its window by left-clicking on its upper border and briefly hold down the ALT + F5 key combination on the keyboard (sometimes ALT + F4 is still advised, but this method is far from working always). With a 70% probability, the program will stop working and the processes of the operating system will function again as before. After that, you can try to run again the desired program by waiting a couple of minutes before trying (so that its process in the system finally dies);

3. The third method is quite simple. You can hover the mouse over the taskbar at the bottom of the screen, find the display there work program, move the mouse pointer over this display, right-click and select “Close application / program” from the drop-down menu. Often this method works and the software forcibly terminates its work;

4. The fourth method is more difficult, but any person can handle it. If the program freezes and the previous advice did not give anything, then you need to close it through the "Task Manager" - it is in any Windows operating system and can be launched different ways... For example, clicking right click mouse on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and selecting the appropriate menu item, or by pressing the CTRL + SHIFT + ESC key combination. I spoke in more detail about the dispatcher in.

So, in the "Task Manager" you will see a list of all running applications. It will contain your frozen program as well. Click on it right key mouse and in the menu that appears, select the item "End the process". In 85% of cases, this helps and the program immediately closes. If this did not help, then in the same "Task Manager" select our frozen program, right-click on it and click on the item "Go to the process". Several processes will open to you, which were launched by the frozen program. You can turn them off one by one, achieving a complete stop of the application and its final closing;

5. The fifth method is even more complicated, but everyone can do it. It is useful in case there is no program in the Task Manager list. This also happens, so do not be surprised - this is normal. In the "Dispatcher", go from the "Programs" tab to the "Processes" tab and among the list that appears, we look for a hung application by its name. It also shows the load of the computer's processor by current processes and other data - from them it is easy to determine what generally hangs and what slows down the computer. The process is closed in exactly the same way as described in the paragraph above - right-click on the process, in the menu, select the option upon its completion - that's it;

6. The sixth method will require the installation of an additional software... There are many third-party programs from independent developers who control and monitor the processes on the computer, allowing them to be controlled a little. We will not list them here, since there are really a lot of them, starting with Total commander and ending with various little-known applications.

Perhaps we can stop at the wonderful CCleaner program, which allows you to manage the startup of applications, their removal and cleaning the registry from left entries. It is not uncommon for a frozen application to be a virus or just crooked compiled program... It is sometimes possible to complete its process only by removing and cleaning the computer from all the tails that this software could have left in it.

How to close a program if it doesn't close - a radical method

Most radical method on closing a program that does not close, it is removed from complete reboot computer. Quite often, users unknowingly or accidentally install some kind of application on their computer, which entails the installation of a whole package of incomprehensible programs (for example, Chinese ones, which are written to startup and are very difficult to remove, especially if they do not know what it is). For example, Baidu. I wrote about it in detail in this article:

CCleaner allows you to not only remove unnecessary applications, but also to clear them from the entries in the registry of the operating system. Also, with its help, you can remove programs from startup, which is very useful in situations when the computer is turned on, incomprehensible applications are automatically launched immediately, which cannot be closed by conventional means.

How to use CCleaner? You can find out from this article:

Closing programs, if they do not close themselves, can be done by a radical method, especially if it is the left-hand software (although if it is possible to reinstall the desired program, then this can also be done). First, we try to remove the process through the "Task Manager" and if it is not there or it is not removed for some reason, launch CCleaner, find it in the list installed programs problematic and delete it. Most likely, a notification will pop up that the program is running and cannot be removed.

We ignore it and continue the uninstall process. After that, go to the "Registry" tab and clean it, removing all references to the problematic program from it. Through this software, you can also find the path where the program is installed and manually delete the folder with its files.

This guarantees that after restarting the computer, the problematic software will not start and freeze along with the entire system. After doing these operations, do not forget to remove all tails from problem program by running the registry cleanup again. How do you like today's article? Maybe you have something to add to today's article, then write in the comments. See you all in the next article.

Windows programs and games can freeze and slow down your computer, some even very often. There are several ways to close them - you can wait for the program to "wake up" and exit it, or call the task manager and from there forcibly close it.

Sometimes a program or game can severely "freeze" the system, and there is no way to go to the task manager. What to do? How to close a frozen program? What else are there quick ways closing programs that are not responding?

The easiest way to close the program is to use the ALT + F4 keys. Almost every computer user knows this combination. But it will not help us in the case when the program freezes and the message "Not responding" is displayed when closing.

You can close the program through the Task Manager (press the key combination Ctrl + Shift + Esc), select the frozen application and click on the "End task" button. Sometimes a force-closed program crashes Windows and blocks your computer. A similar situation can arise in the case of closing games - when a full-screen application freezes, the only thing we can see on the screen is a black picture that covers all windows.

Automatically "close" applications that are not responding

The first method is to make changes to the system settings, so that Windows automatically closes applications that are in the "Not responding" status, that is, those that are frozen.

To activate this feature, go to Registry Editor. To do this, press the Windows key + R key combination, enter the regedit command in the Run window and confirm its launch with Enter.
In the editor window, go to the following path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel / Desktop.

Then right-click on the Desktop entry and select New - String Parameter.

The created parameter is named as AutoEndTasks, then double-click on it and assign it the value "1" to activate. After that, you should restart the system and you're done - now all applications running under the account Windows user will automatically close the moment they hang.

Closing Applications Using ProcessKO

ProcessKO is a program that works in background and allows you to quickly close the application using hotkeys. Despite the use of hotkeys, the closing process is different from the familiar ALT + F4 keyboard shortcut. In the case of ProcessKO, the application will be closed immediately, just like when using the Task Manager. The only difference is that the utility does not require calling any window - it is enough to remember the new key combination.

After installing the program, you need to leave it running in the background (you can run it along with the system).

You also need to activate the keyboard shortcut - open the menu in the upper left corner, then go to the "Kill Hotkey" tab and select the first option.
From this moment, when the program does not close (or when we simply want to close it quickly), just press combination CTRL+ ALT + F4. This will quickly close the application without saving any changes.

How to terminate a program via the command line

Sometimes open program or a process running in the background may freeze so much that even a forced shutdown via the Task Manager in Windows 10 does not help. In this case, it will be useful to close the process with command line.

This happens when an application either opened window freezes to such an extent that nothing can be done with it. Such situations sometimes occur, and even the Dispatcher Windows tasks there may be a problem with closing the process responsible for this program... In such cases, we use another way to close processes running in the background - using the command line in administrator mode

Go to the menu Windows Start 7 or before the start Windows screen 8.1 and in search string enter command cmd... The Command prompt should appear in the list of found items. Right-click on it and select “Run as administrator.

In Windows 10, right-click on Start and select Command Prompt (Admin).

In the Command Prompt window, enter the command tasklist and confirm its execution with Enter. A table will open listing the processes running on the computer. This is the same list found in the Task Manager window.

Then we look for a hanging or unnecessary program(process). You need to check what its PID number is - it is displayed next to the process name in the second column. We remember the PID number and type the following command on the keyboard to forcibly close it:

taskkill / pid ##

Instead of "##" we enter the PID of the process that needs to be closed. That is, if we want to close, for example, the AvastSvc.exe process, which is assigned PID 1496 in the list, then the command would look like this:

taskkill / pid 1496

After confirming with Enter, the specified process will be closed. In the same way, we can forcibly close a program running in the background.

Most applications on the computer start and close in a similar way. As a rule, there are several ways to close a particular program. Depending on the circumstances, you can choose regular exit from the program or urgently interrupt the processes it is running.

Instructions

Any computer user has come across how to close a frozen program. This situation occurs quite often when working on a computer.

In the process of working on a computer, it happens that some program does not respond to user commands. The program does not respond to the mouse, to the keyboard, a window appears with the inscription "the program is not responding".

How to close a frozen program? Some users immediately press the "Reset" button located on the front of the computer. After that, the Windows operating system restarts.

But this is not recommended. Restarting can adversely affect the operation of the operating system, or individual programs running at that moment. After a new start, errors may appear in the work of the program that was running at the time of the abrupt shutdown.

If defragmentation took place at the time of the reboot, the files that were being processed at that time may be damaged due to the reboot. And if it was any system files, then problems with the operating system may begin.

If problems with the operating system have already begun, then one of the outputs will be until the time of its operational state.

What if the program is not responding?

Let us examine the easiest case first. The program is frozen and does not respond to commands from the computer user. You need to disable the frozen program, for this you need to start the "Task Manager" by pressing, simultaneously on the keyboard, the "Ctrl" + "Alt" + "Del" keys in the Windows XP operating system.

V operating systems Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 after pressing these keys, in a new window of the operating system, in open menu you will need to select at the very bottom the item "Start Task Manager", or simultaneously press the combination of keys "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "Esc" on the keyboard.

The Windows operating system has more than convenient way launch the "Task Manager" - right-click on the "Taskbar", and then select "Start Task Manager" from the context menu (In Windows XP, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 - "Task Manager").

In the "Task Manager" window that opens, enter the "Applications" tab. Usually, opposite the name of the frozen program, in the "Status" column, the inscription "Not responding" will be visible.

Next, select the frozen program, and then click on the "End task" button, or select the "End task" item in the context menu, after pressing the right mouse button. In the warning window, agree to end the process.

After a while, the frozen application will turn off. If this did not happen, go to the "Processes" tab.

Attention! Care will need to be taken in this tab. Don't look for a frozen process if you don't know the exact name of the process!

In the Applications tab, highlight the hung program, and then right-click on Go to Process.

The Task Manager will automatically switch you to the Processes tab and highlight the hung application.

After that, press the button "End process", or select in the context menu, by pressing the right mouse button, the item "End process".

If the frozen program is not displayed in the Applications tab, then you yourself need to enter the Processes tab, find the process of the frozen program and disable it, if you can find this process correctly. If you do not know the name of the process, then it is better not to do anything in this tab!

If these actions did not help, then go to the "Users" tab, click on the "Logout" button, or after clicking the right mouse button, select the "Logout" item in the context menu.

You will have to wait a while until the system completes all processes, and then an operating system window appears on your monitor with an icon of your account... Click on this icon, and then log back into the operating system to continue working further.

Similar actions can be performed using the Start menu if you have access to the menu. In the "Start" menu, hover the mouse cursor over the "Shutdown" button, and then in the pop-up context menu select the "Log out" item.

Restarting Explorer

One way to bring Windows back to life is to restart Explorer. Windows explorer is not only file manager, in the operating system, it is responsible, among other things, for displaying the Desktop and the Taskbar.

First, launch the Task Manager using the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys. Then go to the "Processes" tab, then click on the "Image name" button, and then click on the "E" button (in Latin keyboard keyboard).

The "explorer.exe" process will be highlighted. End this process using the End Process button or from the context menu.

After that, the Explorer will close its work, all icons will disappear from the monitor screen. In the Task Manager, go to the "File" menu, and in the context menu, select "New task (Run ...)".

In the window "Create new task", Enter" explorer "in the input field, and then click on the" OK "button.

After that, the operating system should work normally.

Removing a hung process from the command line

Run Command Prompt as Administrator. In the command line interpreter, enter the command: "tasklist" (without quotes), and then press the "Enter" key.

You will see a list of all processes running in the operating system. Next to each application name, its "PID" and the amount of memory consumed are displayed.

Remember the "PID" (numbers) of the hung application that needs to be disabled. in the command line interpreter window enter new team: "Taskkill / pid ..." (without quotes). Instead of "..." after the PID, insert the value you remember. Then press the "Enter" key. The hung application will be closed.

other methods

The most difficult case is when a program or game freezes, which has been deployed to the full screen of the monitor. In this case, you will not have access to the Desktop, Task Manager, or the Start menu.

In this case, try to exit the window with the frozen program to the "Desktop" using the keys on the keyboard.

Press the Alt + F4 keyboard keys. This keyboard shortcut in the Windows operating system is used to close applications.

You can try to press the "Esc" or "Enter" keys on the keyboard, perhaps, in some cases, you will be able to access the Desktop.

When you press the "Windows" key, sometimes you can also get to the Desktop when the program is frozen.

Try pressing the function keys "F1" - "F12" on the keyboard. In some cases, pressing these keys leads to the opening of the Desktop. Which one specifically function key may help, depends on the specific computer, different computers it happens in different ways.

If the Desktop opens, follow the steps described earlier in this article to exit the frozen application.

But, there are situations when the computer does not respond to any user actions. The mouse does not work, the computer does not respond to keystrokes on the keyboard. In this case, a restart of the operating system can no longer be avoided. Then you have to click on the "Reset" button.

Conclusions of the article

If the program is frozen. does not respond to user actions, try to exit the frozen application without rebooting the operating system.

All programs are written by people, which means they are not perfect and may freeze. that hung? In general, in Windows 7/10, the developers did their best. In these operating systems, programs began to freeze much less frequently and it became easier to close such programs. In Windows XP, you had to restart your computer much more often due to the fact that programs freeze.

Let's take it all apart available methods how to close a program that is frozen with specific examples and learn how to avoid such problems.

How can you tell if a program is frozen?

Usually, the program stops responding to user actions, and the cursor turns into an hourglass. In this case, the title of the program in parentheses may be written "(Not responding)". All attempts to close the program to the "cross" do not give anything, or the cross cannot be pressed. You also need to understand that resource-intensive operations require execution time. That is, if you have “loaded” the entire computer with something heavy, then the programs may behave like frozen, especially if the computer is weak and old. In this case, you just need to wait, but no more than 5-10 minutes.

What not to do if the program is frozen

At the same time, many users do a lot of not necessary actions wasting your time.

Firstly, do not immediately reach for the "Reset" button or turn off the computer. Although, this is the most radical way close the program (and all other programs :)). But are you going to restart your computer every time? You can spend the whole day doing this activity and not have time for anything! In addition, unsaved data in other programs can be lost.

Secondly, there is no need to try to run the frozen program again. This will not be able to help the case, but it will aggravate the problem even more!

And thirdly, do not run other programs. This will only slow down the system even more.

How to close the program if it "hangs"

Since the program cannot be closed with a "cross", you can try pressing "ALT + F4". This key combination closes active program... Or click on the program icon in the left upper corner and select "Close"

Another harmless way to close a frozen program is to right-click on the program in the taskbar and select "Close program" there.

Sequencing:

• In the task manager on the "Applications" tab, we find our program and click on it with the right mouse button
• In the context menu, select "End task" (or instead of the menu, press the button of the same name). If the program did not close immediately, then wait a little, a window should appear to confirm the completion of the application
• If after confirmation the program is still "hanging", then right-click on it again, but this time select "Go to process". Each running program has one or more processes in the computer's memory. If you close the corresponding process, then the program will also close.
• After switching to the "Processes" tab, the cursor should already be on the process of the frozen program. Feel free to right-click on it and select "End process" or, more likely, "End process tree". The program should close almost immediately.

What to do if the program is not on the "Applications" tab

It may be that by calling the task manager, our program is not in the list running programs... Then you will have to go to the "Processes" tab and find yourself desired process... To do this, you can click on the heading of the "CPU" (processor load) column, thereby sorting all processes by the degree of processor load, and see the process that loads the processor the most, and terminate it.

But a frozen program will not always load the processor, then you need to sort the processes by name and look for a program similar to the name. You can more accurately determine the required process by finding out the name of the executable file of our program. To do this, right-click on the program shortcut (be it on the desktop or in the "Start" menu) and select "Properties".

In the line "Object" we look at the name of the file being launched, which ends with ".exe". This will be the name of the process that you need to find in the task manager and terminate.

How can I close the program in another way?

You can also close the program using third-party programs, for example Process Explorer from by Sysinternals... It is light and free program does not require installation. Just download and run “procexp.exe” from the archive.

Is there another way?

For the most advanced, there is another way how to close a frozen program... To do this, open the "Run" window either through the "Start -> Run" menu, or with the hot keys "Win + R" and write "cmd" there. In the black window that opens, write:

"Taskkill / f / im process_name.exe / t"

where "process_name.exe" is the process name of the hung program, for example "explorer.exe"

If successful, a corresponding message will be written.

As some exotic way there is Kerish Doctor 2015, it has a unique Kerish Deblocker feature,.

Why do programs freeze?

Instead of dealing with the question of how to close programs, it is better that they do not freeze. Here are the main reasons why programs freeze:

How to deal with some of these problems, read the article. Here we have seen all the ways how to close the program. If you liked the article and seemed useful to your friends, then share with them using the buttons social networks under the article and subscribe to blog updates on e-mail, so as not to miss new interesting articles.

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