How to close a program that is frozen/will not respond using Task Manager

How to close a program that is frozen/will not respond using Task Manager

If you want to use Task Manager to close a program that is frozen/not responding you first need to know how to open the tool.

Here are a few ways to open Task Manager -

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Right-click the Taskbar and click on Task Manager.

Open Start, do a search for Task Manager and click the result.

Use the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keyboard shortcut.

Or use the Ctrl + Alt + Del keyboard shortcut and click on Task Manager

Once the task manager is open it will look like this

Next click More details

Select the program you would like to close

Click End task