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How to automatically close non-responding programs

When a program hangs and stops responding, and you open up the Task Manager and click End Program (sometimes in can be several times you click before the uncooperative program finally shuts down).

Why not just have Windows close programs that quit responding so you won't have to?

You can do it with a registry tweak. As usual, follow my tip before editing the Registry

In registry editor, navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop 1. in the right pane, right click the entry AutoEndTasks. 2. Select Modify. 3. In the Value Data field, change the value to 1. 4. Click OK, and close the registry editor. If you want to change Windows back to the default behavior (not closing unresponsive programs, just repeat the process and change the value back to 0).

You'll need to restart the system for the change to take effect.

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