3 Effective Ways to Forced Turn Off Programs (Without Complicated)

Often we mess around with programs that can’t be closed because our computers hang or other indicators that trigger a program can’t be closed. Actually there are various ways that we can do to overcome this, one of which is by forcibly stopping the program.

To do this, I will share three ways that may be familiar to your ears. Check out the following steps to forcibly turn off stubborn programs (don’t want to close):

How to Forcibly Turn Off Programs

The first way: Through the task manager

The first way that is often used by many Windows users is, through the task manager.

1. To open the task manager, you can use the button Ctrl+Shift+Esc on your keyboard. Another way to open this application, just right click on the taskbar and select task manager.

2. Please look for the program or application that you want to force turn off. Then right click the application and select End task.

Second way: Through windows powershell

Windows Powershell is a command line interface or CLI that is used for programming commands. Another function of this application is, forcibly stopping running applications.

1. First open Run by pressing the button Windows+R, then type powershell, then Enter.

2. To find out what programs are running (running), please type get-process as shown in the following image.

3. Type kill -processname [nama-program], then press Enter. For example, here I want to turn off the Opera program, so the command is as follows: kill -processname opera, then press Enter.

4. Another command that can be used is stop-process [nama-program], then press Enter.

The third way: Through the command prompt

Command prompt is a windows program that is used as a DOS command interpreter. You can use this command prompt to forcibly stop a running program in the following way:

1. First open Run by pressing the button Windows+R, then type cmd to open the command prompt application, then Enter.

2. In the cmd window, type tasklist to see what programs are running on your computer.

3. Use the command taskkill /im [nama-program]. For example, we are trying to turn off the sticky notes program, so the command used is taskkill /im stikynot.exe as seen in the image below. Reply that says Success indicates that the program was successfully shut down.

4. Another command you can use is taskkill /pid 5496, which is turning off the program according to its PID. For example, the PID of sticky notes is 5496.

Those are the three ways to force shut down the program. Hopefully the methods that I have shared above will solve your problem, especially regarding a stubborn program that doesn’t want to close.

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