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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Force Close Stopped Responding Programs & Frozen Processes » My Digital Life

Force Close Stopped Responding Programs & Frozen Processes

When shutting down the Windows XP PC, sometimes the Windows computer will not shutdown itself due to Windows waiting for certain tasks or processes which has not responding, or already frozen or hanged to time out. In this case, Windows will prompt a dialog box that mentions "This Program has stopped responding", and giving users the option to End Task or wait to allow more time Windows to terminate the program or task.

The cause for problem is because the Windows will try to properly and gracefully terminate all running processes, tasks and programs before shutting down the Windows. If Windows kernel unable to to terminal a not responding or hanged programs, then Windows will wait until time out, and ask the user whether to end the frozen task or continue to wait for the process to respond.

If you don't want to wait for default time out and want to force exit or force close any unresponsive programs automatically, just set the value of "AutoEndTasks" to 1.

Read more...
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/06/19/force-close-stopped-responding-programs-frozen-processes/

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