What do I do to exit a program on my macbook when it freezes?
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Option-apple-esc (option-command-esc, or option-cloverleafthingy-esc, I think the key changed on the new MacBooks). It gives you a little window titled “Force Quit Applications”, pretty self explanatory. Only works for applications, if you want to hunt and kill smaller, hidden or system processes use Activity Monitor (Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor)
I found a way to quickly type Control-Alt-Delete on my Macbook Pro to. Alternatives if you find this keystroke combination awkward to use. Jun 5, 2018 - Command + Option (Alt) + Esc. Pressing these three buttons simultaneously opens the “Force Quit Applications” window. Here you'll see all your running applications and a button that says “Force Quit.” Simply select the application(s) you want to go nuclear on and click “Force Quit.”.
Option-Command-esc or you can select Force Quit from the Apple icon menu in the left hand corner to open Force Quit to choose the application you are trying to kill.
A complete list of shortcuts for Mac OS X
And if you are a UNIX geek the other option is to open the Terminal Application, type the command “ps-aux” , find the process that’s running and copy the id number (far left of the screen) and type “Kill whatevertheprocessid#is” and hit Enter.
Good Luck!
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Good Luck!
R
You can also right click (control+click) on the dock icon for the app and you will get a Force Quit option if a application isn’t responding.
If none of the above techniques work, you can force your machine to shut down by holding down the power button for 6 seconds. It’s not recommended, obviously, but once in a while it’s the only thing that works.
Sometimes the first Force Quit won’t take. If you go right back and force quit it again it will work the second time.
If you want to delete a process or application that is running, use Force Quite.
I cannot find my docking station, therefore I can’t get to anything. All my icons have disappeared. Help?????
My Parallels Desktop claims that “a disk read error occurred” and that I must press cntrl-alt-delete to start it up now. I have tried the Mac version of this command, but only receive a “force quit” option. I am needing to get my Parallels back up and running. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Remote Desktop is a nifty little windows feature that allows you to remotely connect to another PC and manage it as if you were physically at the console.
You can read my previous post on how to setup remote desktop in Windows XP. If you need to remote desktop into Windows 10, read this post.
When connecting to another machine, just about all keyboard actions are transmitted to the remote machine, i.e. pressing Enter, typing, pressing the Windows key, etc. However, that is not the case for some key combinations.
One that has bothered me for a very long time when using Remote Desktop in Windows is when I press Ctrl + Alt + Del while logged into the remote computer. Instead of sending the key combo to the remote computer, it would instead perform the action on my computer!
This was actually intended by Microsoft because there are many cases where you may not want that to be sent to the remote computer. So, by default, Ctrl + Alt + Del will only work for the local computer.
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So how does one perform this same action on the remote computer? It’s pretty easy actually! In order to send Ctrl + Alt + Del to the remote PC, just press the following alternate key combination:
That’s it! Pretty easy eh? Unfortunately, I tend to use Remote Desktop rarely and therefore forget this key combo all the time!
Some people have also followed up with me and asked about multiple RDP sessions, i.e. A – B – C. So A is remotely connected to B and B is remotely connected to C. In this case, you have to load up the On-Screen Keyboard on the final machine (C). You can do that by running osk.exe (press Windows key + R and typing in osk).
Now on your host machine (A), press and hold the CTRL and ALT keys on your physical keyboard and then press the DEL key on the on-screen keyboard. That’s one way to do it.
You can also open the on-screen keyboard on computer B and then type CTRL + ALT + END, which will send CTRL + ALT + DEL to computer C.
Also, note that there are a bunch of other keyboard shortcuts you can use in Remote Desktop:
Those are pretty much all of the remote desktop keyboard shortcuts you will ever need! If you know of anymore, post a comment! Enjoy!