You know the feeling where a program locks up, the window goes white, and you sit there clicking the X icon on the title bar as if it owes you money. Your first instinct is to hit Alt + F4, but the frozen app just ignores you, because it absolutely can. So you reach for Task Manager, wade through the list of processes, carefully avoiding the Windows processes you should never kill, find the right one, right-click it, and finally select “End Task.” By the time it’s over, you’ve spent more mental energy on the rescue mission than on whatever you were doing before.
