How to force quit correctly and protect unsaved changes?

Use a shortcut

If your application, which you are using for work or other purposes, suddenly freezes, you cannot just close it, even if you are annoyed you press the “X” button more than 20 times. It won't help, however, there is a keyboard shortcut to close the frozen program. If the problematic application is in focus, press the Alt + F4 hotkeys on the keyboard at the same time, and the application will close. close it. If the focus is on the Windows desktop, use these keys to shut down Windows.

If this method did not help to close the frozen program, try other simple methods described below.

Command Prompt

You can find and force complete tasks using a privileged command prompt.

So, open a Command Prompt by typing "cmd" in the Windows search bar and then selecting "Command Prompt with Administrator Rights" in the search results.

Then, in the command line, enter several commands (to activate the command, after entering it, press Enter).

List of tasks (this command will display a list of currently running programs, services, and tasks).

Find the required frozen program and when you are ready to forcibly exit the program, run this command:

taskkill / im .exe

Next, you will receive a message about the successful completion of the problematic application.

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