How to kill a crashed game?

[|tera|]

How do kill a game that has crashed on your pc? ctrl alt del doesn't work and I usually just hold in the power button and restart the pc

I thought I got the perfect program, but it's always on top feature isn't that always on top. I basically want something that I can press a shortcut key and it pops up over the game with a process list, so I can just choose the game and kill it.

Also I searched for this about 1month and a half ago, so I forgot my search terms and google gives me squat.

Thanks dudes.
Love you all

 

[killadoob]

i normally press alt tab

if that doesnt work hard reset

 

[|tera|]

Yeah I know killadoob, that's what I do too, I just wish the windows task manager was truly ontop

 

[lilDeath]

hhhmmm what kinda game you using that is causing such an issue?
I have always been able to kill a process (game) with TM which either didn't respond or was hanging the system.
Some games are better than others in being able to switch between windowed modes, others simply cannot deal with it

 

[|tera|]

Let's take this example, internet connectivity is lost and I'm running Age of Empires 3, when it searches for the servers it just hangs, and I can't quit it or use task manager, and most if not all the games I have don't let the task manager show up. I've got wintasks 5, so I'll see maybe it is always ontop

 

[Calico182]

ctrl+esc works sometimes too

 

[|tera|]

Not for me I need an app dudes

Edit: Wintasks doesn't go ontop of the game

 

[thisgeek]

Sometimes I find that if you hit ALT+CTRL+DEL - even though it doesn't show, it has actually launched.
Then hit WIN+R (for run), type CMD, hit enter, and then press ALT+ENTER.
If you're lucky, you'll get a full screen dos prompt. Hit ALT+ENTER again, and you should be back in windows with the offending game minimised. You can then switch to task manager and kill it. Or, in the command prompt, run 'tasklist' - get the process PID, and then use taskkill /pid x where x is the PID.

If it still won't shut down use taskkill /pid x /f - NOTE taskkill can kill tasks that normally won't let you terminate.

 

[Highflyer_GP]

Press Alt+Tab to switch to another application, you'll return to windows. Kill game

 

[|tera|]

Doesn't work HGP

 

[|tera|]

Yeah! the power of myadsl

Got the powermenu from this thread from yesterday
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=53142

Added the command line -topmost on "WinTasks" for WinTasks 5 and now if I'm in any game I just press ctrl shift F1 to start WinTasks, and it kills the game, hehehe

Thanks dudes!

 

[desturbed]

Sometimes I find that if you hit ALT+CTRL+DEL - even though it doesn't show, it has actually launched.
Then hit WIN+R (for run), type CMD, hit enter, and then press ALT+ENTER.
If you're lucky, you'll get a full screen dos prompt. Hit ALT+ENTER again, and you should be back in windows with the offending game minimised. You can then switch to task manager and kill it. Or, in the command prompt, run 'tasklist' - get the process PID, and then use taskkill /pid x where x is the PID.

If it still won't shut down use taskkill /pid x /f - NOTE taskkill can kill tasks that normally won't let you terminate.

Great! Thanks!

 

[lilDeath]

Not for me I need an app dudes
Edit: Wintasks doesn't go ontop of the game

crap game, get rid of it