Force Command

Comments: 4 Responses to “Force Command”

Gary Rosenzweig

15 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

15 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?

Gary Rosenzweig

15 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

15 years ago

Thanks, Gary!

Yours sincerely,

Teddy!