**For Windows XP Pro only. Not for use with XP Home Edition.
If you’re a Windows user, and you’ve had a software application lock up on you one or two thousand times, I’m sure you’ve become familiar with the term “Not Responding”. This is the lovely message that is displayed along with no other useful information when your computer locks up because your computer decided it had more important things to do (other than its sole role of handling processes). If you’re a savvy Windows user, (or you’ve been through a few tech calls) you know that this worthless phrase also appears in the Task Manager. It is there that you can usually kill the process of the program that is causing you grief. It’s easily identifiable because it has the words “Not Responding” next to it.
Like I mentioned earlier, if this has happened one or two thousand times to you (and I’m guessing the latter), I have a tip that will save you some time. How about the next time this happens, instead of pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del or right clicking the Taskbar and selecting Task Manager, you can just click a shortcut on your desktop. Sounds good right. Follow along below and you’ll be killing tasks like a pro. (I’m not sure if there are actually any professional Task killers but if you use Windows, your close enough).
- Right click on the desktop. From the menu hover over New and click on Text Document.
- Name it “taskkill.bat” make sure there is no .txt at the end of the file.
- Hit “Yes” in the dialog box that asks you do you want to change the extension.
- Right click and select edit. This will open a blank notepad.
- Type the following lines:
@echo off
taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding”
exit - Save it. File -> Save and close notepad.
- Now any time a program freezes just double click taskkill.bat. In fact this will kill all programs that are not responding.
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