i have to open task manager, to close a program ,  because it won't respond, like pool ,spades and so on?
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Try doing some maintanece on your computer.\n\nGo to "All Programs"\nClick "Assessories"\nClick "System Tools"\n(Do the following tasks one at a time, or you'll overload your system)\n\nFirst, clean out your sytem by clicking "Disk Cleanup". If you have more than one hard drive clean out each one. This gets rids of unnecessary files and also spyware your scanning programs might have missed.\n\nWhen you are all done with this, go back to "System Tools" and click "Disk Defragmenter" This program moves around your files so that they can runs better and keeps things from crashing. If you have never defragmented your computer(which ought to be done about once a month) it make take an hour or more.\n\nYour computer should work better after these steps. If it does not, check to make sure that your processor is new enough to handle the software you are using.
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Try pressing "Win + U" (Win is that key with a MS Windows logo on), and check on the list of tasks if anything strange is on...
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Just End the Explore.exe process and start a New task Explorer.\nOr\nJust Log off and Login Again
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Hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete and end program. Then restart it.
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uses ShellApi;\n...\nShellExecute(Handle, 'open', 'c:&#92;Windows&#92;notepad.exe', nil, nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL) ;
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First, a firewall problem could do this.\n\nSecond, too many windows open ... regardless of the RAM on your machine, Pool won't play if you have lots of other windows open.\n\nThird, reboot your machine, get connected, don't open anything else and then start Pool.  It should work.
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If it's a game site you access with Internet Explorer, you can open up your task manager by hitting ctrl+alt+delete, find iexplore.exe, highlight it and click end process.\nIf that doesn't work, try downloading the Firefox browser and using it instead of Internet Explorer. I use Firefox anyway for everything, it works much, much better, has it's own popup and spyware blocking, and it's free.
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try several different ones i.e. search & destroy or adaware.
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Well friend I suffered the same problem tried to do what was offered u but didn't work cause all the other rights had been striped off. However this is the solution. Sorry if the search solution worked for u, it didn't work for me.\nClick Start Menu then Right-click and go to open, you will get a open folder with Programs. click it that to open, when it does, you will see the command prompt icon, click that which gives you your black screen with command prompt ( remember you couldn't get this at the Run prompt because it is disabled.) but now u get it. type taskmgr on the command prompt. u r there... long but works..
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Open up your task manager and check out how much CPU and memory that process is using up. If it is using up a lot of CPU then that means that its still doing something. If its not using any CPU or memory, its probably dead, so you can kill it.\n\nI often get this when I am running some heavy formulae in my excel spreadsheet. Excel seems to stop responding, but only because it is still calculating. Once it is done, it comes back to life again.
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close everything else out on the taskbar that you can  but first run antispy from yahoo and maybe the virus scanner  and clean the  disk and do a defrag a couple of times these things can get busy and lose their  processor power  but the other day i  watched a computer hard drive be eaten by a worm and some trojans it just lost all function as the hard drive was overwritten
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Try this (if you dare)\n\nclick Start >> run\nenter ''taskmgr'' w/o quotes.\nclick the processes tab\nfind explorer.exe, click it and then click ''End Process''\nclick yes\nnow click File >> new task\nenter ''explorer'' w/o quotes\nNow try deleting the file again.
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If the item is showing in the taskbar (in a log bar at the bottom) then just close the program.  If it is running in the systray (single icon by the clock) then usually you can right click the icon and close the program from a menu that pops up.
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ctrl+alt+delete / click tasmanager / if needed click applications / click on the yahoo program / click end task
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for xp\n\npress-ctrl-alt-del\n\nchoose 'task manager' if need be.\n\nonce task manager is open, \n\nclick on the 'processes' tab. locate one listed as:\nexplorer.exe\nright-click it, choose 'end process'. If listed more than once, then 'end' each one of them.\n\n\nyour entire desktop will disapear now.\n\n\nnow, click 'file', 'new task (run)', then type 'explorer.exe' no quotes \n\nand it should come back as new. \n\nIf problem remains, then a group policy may be in force.\n\nHOPE THIS HELPS !\n\n-------------------------\nadditional info:\n\nIf your desktop is closing after only a few seconds, and there is NO error displayed, then it was killed on purpose...\nand I'm sorry to say you've been infected with a virus of some kind.  Take it to a professional for cleaning.\n\n:(
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IF YOU ARE RUNNING XP DO A SYSTEM RESTORE DEFRAG AND TRY AGAIN. IT SHOULD RESPOND THEN
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At the same time click these buttons:\nCtrl+Alt+Delete\nwhen the Task Manager window appears click the tab with the name Processes and find the name of the program. then select it and click End Process. a warning will pop up click yes and that's it.\nBut be careful to not stop the processing of system programs because you will need to restart your computer to return all back to normal