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End Task button

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Hello everybody, it's your friendly neigbourhood DRuM here again :)

When something freezes on my pc, I can't actually get to the end task button. For instance, Quake 4 froze when I pressed the disconnect button after speccing the q4w server, ( because it was very busy and lagging my pc badly) .

alt + enter didn't work at that time, alt + tab showed my desktop taskbar but my mouse cursor was unavailable and I couldn't get to it, and ctrl, alt, delete showed my tasks running including quake4. I couldn't end task on Q4 because of the mouse being unavailable. All I could do was scroll up and down highlighting the tasks with my up and down keys and I could also press enter but this didn't end any tasks. Is there a key that allows me to get to buttons such as end task,cancel, next, etc in the event of a program freezing? Otherwise I generally have no choice but to press reset. I somehow managed to get the pc to shutdown by the normal method tonight, but no idea how. Do I need to enable some keyboard thing in accessories/accessabilty? I remember there was something like that in win98.
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Re: End Task button

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DRuM wrote:Hello everybody, it's your friendly neigbourhood DRuM here again :)

When something freezes on my pc, I can't actually get to the end task button. For instance, Quake 4 froze when I pressed the disconnect button after speccing the q4w server, ( because it was very busy and lagging my pc badly) .

alt + enter didn't work at that time, alt + tab showed my desktop taskbar but my mouse cursor was unavailable and I couldn't get to it, and ctrl, alt, delete showed my tasks running including quake4. I couldn't end task on Q4 because of the mouse being unavailable. All I could do was scroll up and down highlighting the tasks with my up and down keys and I could also press enter but this didn't end any tasks. Is there a key that allows me to get to buttons such as end task,cancel, next, etc in the event of a program freezing? Otherwise I generally have no choice but to press reset. I somehow managed to get the pc to shutdown by the normal method tonight, but no idea how. Do I need to enable some keyboard thing in accessories/accessabilty? I remember there was something like that in win98.
you didn't try tab?
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Post by Survivor »

tab indeed
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Post by DRuM »

Ok thanks, tab does indeed work to highlight the end task button. Spacebar seems to be the only key that actually then ends it/removes from task.
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Post by Bacon »

Or alt + e
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Post by axbaby »

alt +tab if you having probs exiting q4

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Post by DRuM »

axbaby wrote:alt +tab if you having probs exiting q4

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DRuM wrote: alt + tab showed my desktop taskbar but my mouse cursor was unavailable and I couldn't get to it,
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ctrl, alt, delstfu ax
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