Jul 04, 2018 The most conventional and effective way to close frozen programs is to go to the macOS® menu bar, located along the top of the screen in the Finder menu. To force quit an application, simply do the following: Click on the black apple icon in the upper. Jun 02, 2017 My computer indicates that my microsoft excel is open, but I cannot quit, cannot open a new file, it won't even show that I am in the application when I click on it. I have tried to force quit. Jul 28, 2018 Force Quit An App On Mac Using Dock When you right click on a running app in the Mac Dock, you will see an option to “Quit”. But this may not work with a frozen or unresponsive app. To Force Quit an app, hold the Option key on your keyboard while you right click on the app’s Dock icon and you will see that “Quit” is now “Force Quit“.
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Just press the alt-key and rightclick on the Finder icon in the dock, and you will get an extra option at the bottom that says 'Relaunch'. :)
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The curious thing is that the keyboard shortcut listed doesn't actually work. I hadn't noticed this little tidbit prior to reading the hint, but immediately realized the advantage that it offers: a bypass around the 'Force Quit' dialog.
If I understand the difference that the shift key is supposed to make here, you should be able to add shift to the good 'ol Force Quit key combination to achieve an immediate Force Quit of the frontmost app. In fact, it even displays that key combination in the Apple Menu next to the modified 'Force Quit' entry. In my testing, it didn't work.
That means that I'll have to agree with Rob in saying that for the real-world, this hint is practically useless. Am I a better person for knowing that holding the shift key changes the Force Quit behavior of the Apple Menu? I'll let you know the next time I have an app hang, but if I were you I wouldn't hold my breath.
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If I understand the difference that the shift key is supposed to make here, you should be able to add shift to the good 'ol Force Quit key combination to achieve an immediate Force Quit of the frontmost app. In fact, it even displays that key combination in the Apple Menu next to the modified 'Force Quit' entry. In my testing, it didn't work.
That means that I'll have to agree with Rob in saying that for the real-world, this hint is practically useless. Am I a better person for knowing that holding the shift key changes the Force Quit behavior of the Apple Menu? I'll let you know the next time I have an app hang, but if I were you I wouldn't hold my breath.
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What I find odd is that Apple chose the Shift key to modify this menu item. Obviously it should be Alt/Option that shows an alternative menu item.
But the Option key is already used in the shortcut, so that's a nonoption (Command-OPTION-Esc). Wouxun kg uv9d software mac.
This also works with any frontmost application.
I found it necessary to hold down shift-option-command-esc for about 2 seconds for the shortcut key sequence to quit the frontmost app.
Well done! I wasn't patient enough. This is now somewhat useful. It's a heck of a lot easier to get a lagging app out of the way without the Force Quit pseudo-dialog.
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These days most apps on your Mac are easy to understand. You can even use Launchpad to manage — and delete — them like iPad apps. Sometimes, though, they still don't work the way iOS apps do. For example, if you want to delete an app, but it doesn't have an X when you trigger jiggle mode, or when you try to delete it old-school style in Finder, you get a message that reads, 'The item '[app name]' can't be moved to the trash because it's open.'
It happens because the app is still processing in the background and, for one reason or another, that background process has failed to properly shut down. Cue all the cursing! Or, better yet, read on and I'll show you how to shut it down and get it gone for good!
![Can Can](/uploads/1/2/6/2/126260947/216598984.png)
Note: I used the Rocket app as an example in my pictures, but only because I was removing an earlier version. Does movie editing software come with mac. I love Rocket and would never delete it (it emojifies your Mac!).
How to close an app that you thought was already closed or can't figure out how to close on your Mac
- Click on the Finder icon in your app dock.
- Select Applications from the Favorites list.
- Scroll down and double-click on Utilities.
- Double-click on Activity Monitor.You can also just type 'Activity Monitor' into Spotlight.
- Type the name of the app you are looking for into the Search bar.
- Select the app.
- Click on the X in the upper left corner of the window.
- Click Quit to confirm that you want to quit the process.
The app is now closed and you can delete it from your Mac.
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