{"id":983,"date":"2013-11-12T04:08:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T04:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2023-04-17T08:53:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T08:53:46","slug":"a-way-to-automatically-shut-down-a-program-that-stops-responding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/a-way-to-automatically-shut-down-a-program-that-stops-responding\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Shut Down A Program That Stops Responding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you annoyed when some programs in your PC stop responding and you can not close them or make some operations in them? If your answer is yes, you must be interested in the topic of how to automatically <a title=\"A Way to Automatically Shut Down A Program That Stops Responding\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/a-way-to-automatically-shut-down-a-program-that-stops-responding\/\"><strong>shut down a program that stops responding<\/strong><\/a>. Therefore, this post will illustrate a way to turn off a program that is not responding.<\/p>\n<h2>Procedures of shutting down the programs which cease responding:<\/h2>\n<p>1. Click <strong>Start<\/strong> button, input <strong>regedit<\/strong> in the run box, and open the<strong> regedit.exe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/click-start-and-open-registry-editor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"388\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/click-start-and-open-registry-editor.png\" alt=\"click start and open registry editor\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/click-start-and-open-registry-editor.png 400w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/click-start-and-open-registry-editor-300x291.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. After entering into the Registry Editor, find<strong> Desktop<\/strong> according to \u201cComputer\u2192HKEY_CURRENT_USER\u2192Control Panel\u2192Desktop \u201d, and then open it with a click.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/open-desktop1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/open-desktop1.webp\" alt=\"open desktop\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Select <strong>AutoEndTasks<\/strong> in the right menu, right click it and choose <strong>Modify<\/strong>, and then change its value data to <strong>1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Note: If you can not find AutoEndTasks in the menu on the right, you can build it by yourself. And the concrete process is as below.<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Right-click a blank part of the right side menu and a button named <strong>New<\/strong> appears. Point at the button, select <strong>String Value<\/strong> and then a new value is created, as the following screenshot exhibits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/build-a-new-string-value.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/build-a-new-string-value.png\" alt=\"build a new string value\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/build-a-new-string-value.png 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/build-a-new-string-value-300x89.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Rename the new value as <strong>AutoEndTasks<\/strong>, right click it and select <strong>Modify<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rename-the-string-value-as-autoendtasks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rename-the-string-value-as-autoendtasks.png\" alt=\"rename the string value as autoendtasks\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rename-the-string-value-as-autoendtasks.png 600w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/rename-the-string-value-as-autoendtasks-300x96.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Input <strong>1<\/strong> as the value data and click<strong> OK<\/strong>. Then after restart, your computer is able to automatically shut down the programs that stop responding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/input-value-data.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/input-value-data.png\" alt=\"input value data\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/input-value-data.png 400w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/input-value-data-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the above-mentioned way and its operation process, it is not that difficult to <strong>set programs that are not responding turn off<\/strong> automatically in the computer. 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