• An interesting Win10 Key Combo to escape from a frozen computer

    Posted on May 7, 2016 at 17:44 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    From our own Ax Kramer –

    I had a program put up an error dialog box which locked up my new Win10 laptop computer. Completely frozen.  No mouse, no touch pad response, no exit, no nothing

    I tried control/alternate/delete to bring up task manager. Got it, but still no response from keyboard, pad, or mouse, so I could not halt the program, or choose any other option. Even tried turning off the computer and restarting. Backs to the desktop…. same frozen computer.

    Tried the escape key. It did not work. But I found that Control/Escape (ctrl/esc) gave me an option, “Close All Windows”. I hit Enter and the error dialog box disappeared! No more frozen computer.

    Of course I had to try this again so I re-ran the program, getting the same error dialog box and frozen computer. Hit the key combo “ctrl/esc” and without even asking, Win10 closed out the two open windows and took me back to a functioning desktop. Now I can even type up and send emails.

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