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Shutdown the troubling program

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Does your computer become non-responsive for long periods of time without a warning forcing you to reboot? Next time this happens, follow the steps below and you may be able to isolate the program causing these problems or at least recover the system without rebooting.

Windows 95

Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE (ONCE!)
Select and close the non-responsive program from the "Close Program" dialog box

Windows NT

Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE
Click on "Task Manager..."
Select the non-responsive program from the "Windows NT Task Manager" and click on "End Task"

Applicable Keywords : Windows NT, Windows NT 4.x, Windows, Windows 95

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