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The Force Quit for Mac

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Last week we talked about how to deal with a frozen programs on your PC. But what if we are working on applications on a Mac and they freeze and crash on us? Cltr + Alt + Delete isn’t going to help, but we could use the Mac keyboard short cut: Command-Option-Escape to bring up the Force Quit Applications menu.

Force Quit can be accessed from the Apple pull down menu at the top left no matter what application you are in. The keyboard shortcut is shown on this menu as a series of almost unrecognizable symbols. I found out while travelling that our friends across the pond have those symbols printed on the keys of their computers. American Mac users will have to remember Force Quit can be accessed using Command-Option-Escape.

It has been my experience that when an application freezes you can two-finger click the application symbol on the dock and the Force Quit option will be there. It is not there normally, but when your Mac freezes up in one place its unfrozen parts are smart enough to give you some options in dock to fix your problem. However, if your entire computer locks up and you can’t access anything and nothing works, you’ll have to go for the re-start. Be sure to wait ten seconds before restarting after you hold down the power button to force shutdown. This allows your mind and your computer’s hard drive time to calm down and start fresh, hopefully without losing what you were working on at the time of the crash.

 


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