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Sometimes it happens that the Task Manager is not accessible via CTRL ALT DELETE or by right click in the taskbar and select Task Manager.

If this happens, know that there is another method a little more complicated but in fact once understood, simple.

To begin, open a command prompt by:

In Windows XP

• Start
• Execute
• Type cmd and click OK or Enter

In Windows Vista

• Start
• Type cmd in the search fields
• Right click on "cmd €? then select "Exectuive as Administrator €?
• Confirm the UAC

Then once the open command prompt, type tasklist

The process list is then displayed in the prompt commands like the Task Manager.

This list consists of several columns, those that concern us are the PID column and the name.

In this example we are going to "kill €? process cmd then the command prompt.

Looking at the line cmd.exe, you can see that the corresponding PID is 2320.

This value is not necessarily the same for you

To complete the process, type "taskkill / PID numeropid €? in the command prompt without the quotes.

The window command prompt will close up, be careful when using this command does not go wrong line and then close an application you'd want to leave open because no confirmation is requested

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