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How to Force Quit an Application

Posted November 25, 2009 at 11:54pm by iClarified
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These are instructions on how to force quit a Mac OS X application. You may need to do this if an application has stopped responding and you cannot quit normally.

There are three different methods that can be used to bring up the Force Quit dialog.

APPLE MENU
Step One
Select Force Quit... from the Apple Menu.
How to Force Quit an Application


Step Two
Select the application you would like to quit from the list then click the Force Quit button.
How to Force Quit an Application

Step Three
When asked to confirm click the Force Quit button again.
How to Force Quit an Application


DOCK
Step One
Hold down the Control key and click the dock icon from the program you would like to quit. Click to select Force Quit from the popup menu.
How to Force Quit an Application

Step Two
Select the application you would like to quit from the list then click the Force Quit button.
How to Force Quit an Application

Step Three
When asked to confirm click the Force Quit button again.
How to Force Quit an Application


KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
Step One
Press the Command, Option and Esc keys together.

Step Two
Select the application you would like to quit from the list then click the Force Quit button.
How to Force Quit an Application

Step Three
When asked to confirm click the Force Quit button again.
How to Force Quit an Application


If you have tried Force Quitting an application and it still won't close there is still something else you can try. Click here
for instructions on how to use the kill command.
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Rick
Rick - November 26, 2009 at 11:53am
damn right
Rick
Rick - November 26, 2009 at 12:18am
who the hell does not know this all ready?????
Robert C
Robert C - November 26, 2009 at 12:51am
A lot of people, you would be surprised. Why did you come in to look at the article if you already knew how to do it?
yiyopr
yiyopr - November 26, 2009 at 1:06am
I understand that many people might not know how to do this but surely not anyone who has enough knowledge to be on the look out for recent technology post on a website such as iClarified. They way I figure is that there are two ways to find this:,1. search "How to force quit" on google. 2. Be a fan of the site. If they don't know how to force quit they probably don't even know what it means and they probably don't come into this site because its a tec. enthusiast site.
iClarified
iClarified - November 26, 2009 at 1:43pm
This is an intro to the slightly more complicated kill command which will be posted very soon.
Amber
Amber - November 27, 2009 at 12:36am
wow...you put all the pieces together. Didn't you think thats what iClarified might want??? That someone searches on google and finds a link to iClarified on how to do something. Even if its stupidly easy??
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