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Figure 6-5. Top: Task Manager opens as a simple list of open apps whose names you should
recognize. If one is frozen, you can click it and then click “End task” to exit it.

Bottom: But if you click “More details” at the lower-left corner, you get this massively informative
table. The color coding and the “Not responding” tag should make it pretty clear which program is
giving you problems. The flippy triangles indicate apps with more than one window open. Open the
triangle to see them listed.

Tip

Actually, there may be a quicker solution. Try right-clicking the frozen program’s taskbar button;
from the shortcut menu, choose Close. This trick doesn’t always work—but when it does, it’s
much faster than using the Task Manager.

Here are three ways to do it:

Invoke the new “three-fingered salute,” Ctrl+Shift+Esc.