

This will give you the option of a standard quit, or a force quit. If a program appears to be using too much CPU or memory, or is highlighted in red, you can quit it from within Activity Monitor by selecting the program, and clicking the quit button in the toolbar. It will show you a list of all open applications, and give you information about the amount of processor power, memory, and virtual memory being used. You can open an application called Activity Monitor by searching for it in spotlight. There are also other ways if the force quit command fails. Select it either by using the arrow keys or keeping pressed the Apple and pressing again Tab (or moving the cursor on it and releasing it).


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(in the upper left of the menu bar) If all is unresponsive and you’re seeing a “spinning beach ball”, try to be sure you’re in the “Finder” by making a click anywhere in a free space on the desktop or pressing the Apple key (= command) and the Tab until you’ll see the Finder’s icon (and all the rest of the open applications). If you can’t, save what you can, and restart your computer.īefore you press the Option-Command-Escape or use the equivalent command that you find in the Apple menu. Your best bet is to wait a minute or so, and see whether you can quit any applications normally. However, force quitting an application will cause any unsaved changes to be lost. (press them in that order, but don’t release any of them until you’ve pressed the last one.) This will give you the option to force quit any crashed applications.
