{"id":96035,"date":"2017-04-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=96035"},"modified":"2019-03-13T01:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:10:34","slug":"20170425-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20170425-00\/?p=96035","title":{"rendered":"How do I kill a program that hung with an always-on-top fullscreen window?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has this ever happened to you? You&#8217;re hard at work <strike>blasting zombies<\/strike> being super-productive with a program that has an always-on-top fullscreen window. And then the program hangs. How can you get to Task Manager so you can kill the hung program? <\/p>\n<p>One way to do this is to launch Task Manager and use keyboard accelerators to get it to be always-on-top: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hit     <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>Alt<\/kbd>+<kbd>Del<\/kbd>     and say that you want to run Task Manager.     Task Manager will run, but it&#8217;s covered by the always-on-top fullscreen     window.<\/li>\n<li>Whenever you need to see Task Manager,     use <kbd>Alt<\/kbd>+<kbd>Tab<\/kbd> to select     Task Manager and hold the <kbd>Alt<\/kbd> for a few seconds.     This will give you a preview of Task Manager so you can     see what state it is in.     You can&#8217;t interact with it, but you can at least see it.<\/li>\n<li>If Task Manager is in compact mode, then press     <kbd>Alt<\/kbd>+<kbd>D<\/kbd> to get out of compact mode     into details mode.     If you&#8217;re the sort of person who     likes to open Task Manager a lot, you are probably already     in details mode.<\/li>\n<li>Type <kbd>Alt<\/kbd>+<kbd>O<\/kbd> followed by     <kbd>Alt<\/kbd>+<kbd>D<\/kbd> to enable <i>Always on Top<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You now have an always-on-top Task Manager, and you can now use it to select the hung program and terminate it. <\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a shortcut: Use virtual desktops. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Press <kbd>Win<\/kbd>+<kbd>Tab<\/kbd> to call up the switcher.<\/li>\n<li>Click the <kbd>+<\/kbd> to create a new virtual desktop.     This gives you a clean desktop with nothing on it.     In particular, the hung application is not on this desktop.<\/li>\n<li>Run Task Manager on this new virtual desktop and use it to     terminate the hung program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, look at that desktop over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-96035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Hey, look at that desktop over there.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}