Have you ever encountered a situation where a program stopped working and simply wouldn’t close, even after you clicked the “X” in the upper right corner? Such cases can sometimes resolve themselves when Windows identifies that you have an unresponsive application and gives you the relevant options to deal with it. Other times, you’ll have to take matters into your own hands.

Here's everything you need to know about how to force quit a program that has frozen or stopped responding and won't run.

Force quitting an application is the act of terminating a task when it is so down and out that it doesn't even register the 'quit' command. This is when Windows doesn't give you the expected 'End Now' and 'Wait for the program to respond' options.

When this happens, you can force the task to end using the methods mentioned below. This will ensure that you can end the task and start it again.