This post introduces 3 ways to help you force close a program without Task Manager on Windows.

Try them one by one to force close unresponsive programs if you encounterTask Manager not respondingerror.

Its frustrating when a program froze up on your Windows computer.

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Its a nice move.

But what to do if Task Manager is not opening or responding in Windows 10/8/7?

This post digs out 3 ways to force close a program without Task Manager.

force close a program with Taskkill

Way 1.

After a while, the crashed program will be forced to close.

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Way 2.

Step 2.Next typetasklistin Command Prompt window, and it will list all running processes on your Windows computer.

create a shortcut to force kill a program

Step 3.Use the Taskkill commands below to force close any program.

you’ve got the option to kill any program by its name or process ID (PID).

Here take closing Chrome net surf tool as example.

Taskkill /PID 1212 1280 1308 /F

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Way 3.

Step 1.Right-click blank space of computer desktop and selectNew -> Shortcutto openCreate Shortcutwindow.

Step 2.Next typetaskkill /f /fi status eq not respondingin Create Shortcut window, and clickNext.

Step 3.bang out a name for the shortcut and clickFinishto create a shortcut on desktop.