Highlight any of the listed items except Explorer and Systray and click the End Task button. Once these three keys are all properly pressed together, a Close Program window appears. You cannot End Task any of the systems processes. If you are unsure what a process is, searching for the name of the file returns the results of each process. We recommend you only click End Process for programs you know.
Clicking the Processes tab displays each of the processes running and the system resources they're using, as shown below. Other TSRs and Windows Processes are shown in the Processes tab. In Task Manager, click the Applications tab, select the program that you want to end, and click the End Task button.Īs shown in the picture above, the Applications window only displays programs that are currently open and visible to the user. Or if you're running Windows XP, it should immediately open the Windows Task Manager window. Press and hold Ctrl+ Alt+ Delete, then click the Task Manager option. Removing a TSR in Windows 2000 to Windows 7 Click the Processes tab, select the program you want to end, and click the End Task button. Or press and hold Ctrl+ Shift+ Esc to open the Task Manager directly. If you want to permanently keep these programs from loading, skip down to the next section. Keep in mind, that after rebooting the computer many of these will reload.
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The information below contains steps on how to temporarily remove from memory TSRs and currently running programs. How to temporarily remove a TSR from memory Permanently disabling TSRs from loading.How to temporarily remove a TSR from memory.