A lot of people are surfing the internet and are download all different types of programs from many different sources. Now, this really isn't all that big of a problem as long as the places that you are downloading your software are from trusted websites. The main problem that this article is going to discuss is what to do when these programs hang.
When a program hangs it can be really annoying not just because it tends to freeze up your entire computer but also because it will kill your level of productivity if it happens enough times throughout the day. So what's the solution? To kill the program that is hanging (by kill I mean to stop the program from running). But why exactly does one program hang on one computer but not on another? To break it down into simpler terms, it really has to deal with your computers specifications and its own unique problems.
I'm not going to go into the details of how to use these error messages to completely stop your computer from ever hanging again as that takes a lot of detective work and time, but what I am going to show you in this article is how to stop a program from hanging for a really long period of time by killing it.
Now I'm going to show you 2 different techniques. The very first one is to open up your task manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc at the same time and then to click on the tab that says "Application". Now when you are in that tab you will see a list of the applications that are running with their current status. If an application that you suspect is "hanging" (or is frozen) is on your computer then its status will be labled as "Not Responding". If you have a program that is not responding and you will like to stop it, just click on that application so that it is highlighted and at the bottom of the windows click on the button that says End Task. Keep in mind that if you have any unsaved work on your computer and you end task a program you will loose all of the unsaved data, so use this cautiously.
The second way to kill an application is to right click on it when you are in the Applications tab of the Task Manager and click on Go To Process. It will then take you to the Process tab with the program highlighted. Just right click on the program that is highlighted here and click on End Process Tree. A word of caution here: when you perform an End Process Tree you are killing the program that is hanging and also the programs that are linked to it. If the program that you want to kill either has unsaved work or is important you should not kill it as you might stop other programs that are linked to it from running.
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