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Beat your Mac into submission

by Scott McNulty Apr 14th 2006 at 5:00PM

Sometimes, even on a Mac, applications go a little wonky. They stop responding, they freeze, or you are treated to everyone's favorite sight: the spinning beachball of death. Ted Landau has compiled a quick list of something things that you can do quit a misbehaving program, or to speed up Safari.

Even after all that, once in awhile an application refuses to die and one must delve into the strange, and frightening world of the Terminal, however, Ted doesn't cover that.

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Guillermo

I'll have to try one of these the next time I unplug a network cable before ejecting the network shares and Finder freezes forever.

April 15 2006 at 1:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Blah

I guess I should've read the article first. He mentions the Activity Monitor option.

April 14 2006 at 5:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Blah

Joseph: Only if you want to lose all your work.

The key is have Activity Monitor in your dock and launch it when you neeed to kill a process. It can take a bit of time if a program is eating up RAM and CPU, but does the same thing as the terminal.

April 14 2006 at 5:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joseph

Instead of Terminal?

April 14 2006 at 5:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joseph

Can't you just hold the power button down if an app won't quit?

April 14 2006 at 5:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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