To kill non-responding or hung  or frozen applications, normally one opens the Task Manager, and right clicks on the process and selects End Task.

But you can also create a desktop shortcut to kill such non-responding applications in a click.

To do so, right click on an empty area on your desktop.

Select New>Shortcut.

In the first box of the Create Shortcut Wizard, type :

taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding”

Click Next.

Name the shortcut : TaskKiller.

Click Finish.

Then select an appropriate icon for it !

The shortcut uses the Taskkill command to identify and terminate application/s that are Not Responding.

Or you could create a .bat file (right click desktop > New > Notepad) with the following matter:

@echo off
taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding”
exit

Save it as .bat file.

Alternatively, you can also check out freeware Process Assassin.

Process Assassin enables the user to select a Not Responding application and terminate it immediately without calling any other external programs. There are options available too.

Another similar application is Task Killer. It is a neat way to unload frozen applications, processes or services. It shows the tasks, windows and/or services in popup menu.

How to kill Processes using command prompt in Windows may also interest you.

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