I’m sure there is a much better and more specific place to ask this, so please let me know if you can think of one. But i couldn’t, so I’m asking here for now. I have a program on Windows 10 (The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky via Steam incase somehow that matters.recently I’ve had this game freeze, and I can’t even get it closed with alt+F4. I know my OS is not entirely frozen because I can see the little window-switching animation when I use alt+tab. But the cursor is nowhere to be found, no matter what i do. After a few minutes, my game is a black screen on one of my monitors, and there is no way to free my cursor from its eternal damnation or even lay eyes on the little fella one last time

The question is: how else might i destroy a computer-wide problematic program, probably with only my keyboard.

I know it’s Windows, but there must be at least one other method that could work, right?

I typed this all while drunk so forgive any mistakes but goddammit i’m very curious what other solutions might be out there

  • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Just remember to set task manager to always on top before, I have tried this with some programs only to have task manager get stuck underneath the problem window.