To kill non-responding or hung or frozen applications, normally one opens the Task Manager, and right clicks on the process and selects End Task. But you can also create a desktop shortcut to kill such non-responding applications in a click. To do so, right click on an empty area on your desktop. Select New>Shortcut. In the first box of the Create Shortcut Wizard, type : taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding” Click Next. Name the shortcut TaskKill. (or what ever you like) Click Finish. Then select an appropriate icon for it ! The shortcut uses the Taskkill command to identify and terminate application/s that are Not Responding. Or you could create a .bat file (right click desktop > New > Notepad) with the following matter: @echo off taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding” exit Save it as .bat file. and if you want to create a hot key for the .bat file then create a shortcot to it. In the shortcut properties, "Shortcut tab&q