On Jan 1, 2005, at 2:51 AM, duolist-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote: > From: Samual Acorn <sam.acorn at gmail.com> > Subject: [DuoList] is it possible... > To: DuoList at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > Message-ID: <afa92a2b04123123513ac10b80 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > ...to stop a 'stuck' application without resetting the whole machine? > (there doesnt seem to be any 'killall' or 'task manager' functions in > macos 7.5.3... that i can find anyway...) > > also... there is a very strange dialog that opens on apple+power thats > like a command prompt but doesnt respond to anything... what is this? > (i have to reset the machine to get rid of it) > > [many pardons if ive asked this before on this list... i have a very > bad memory...] > There are "Force-Quit" and "Force-Restart" key combinations if I remember correctly. They are Cmd-Opt-Escape and Cmd-Ctrl-Power, respectively. After force-quit, you should restart your machine. Force-quit is technically less severe than force-restart and should always be tried first. Bob F