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Force Command

Dear Gary,
I don’t really understand what force means…

… As in force quit or force boot!
Please could you help me understand?

Yours sincerely, Teddy!

— Teddy

Comments: 4 Responses to “Force Command”

    14 years ago

    Normally you would quit a program by selecting File, Quit. But if a program becomes unresponsive and won't quit -- or perhaps so unresponsive that you can't even select Quit, then force quit is a way to shut down that program. Only use it in extreme cases. But sometime programs are buggy and you end up having to do this.

    Teddy
    14 years ago

    I meant to ask:

    What does the force quit command do... As in:

    Does it force other applications to give up a certain percentage of the CPU so that it can dump the application from the ram and virtual memory?

      14 years ago

      It doesn't do anything to other applications. It forces the application you wish to quit. The other applications don't need to "give up" anything.

    Teddy
    14 years ago

    Thanks, Gary!

    Yours sincerely,

    Teddy!

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