Most of us have certainly experienced our PC’s getting hanged at some point or the other. Certain programs all of a sudden stops responding andthe computer screen becomes still. The easiest and the stupidest thing people do in such situations is restart the PC. The other common practise is to press Ctrl+Alt+Del, go to Task Manager, select the culprit program and End Task. But this again is a tedious process espesially if there are more than one programs causing the PC to get hanged.
Today I’m sharing a small tweak by which you can kill the “not responding” programs instantly. All you have to do is add a new key in the registry and then just like “cut, copy, paste” you can kill a not responding program simply by right cliking and selecting from the Desktop context menu.
To do so follow these steps:
1. Go to Start> Run and type regedit. It’ll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DesktopBackground\Shell (for Windows 7)
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\Shell (for Windows Vista)
3. Now we’ll need to create a new key under “Shell” key. Right-click on “Shell” key and select “New -> Key”. Give the new key name “Kill Not Responding Tasks”.
4. Now right-click on the new key which we created in step 3 and select “New -> Key”. Give the new key name of command.
5. In right-side pane, change value of “Default” to:
taskkill /F /FI “STATUS eq NOT RESPONDING”
6. That’s it. Now you’ll have “Kill Not Responding Tasks” shortcut in Desktop context menu.
To set its position in the context menu, create a new String value “Position” and set its value to:
Top (To show it at top)
Bottom (To show it at bottom).
Hope you’ll find this useful.
