Managing Windows After an Application Failure
Windows 95 significantly improves on how failed or misbehaving applications are handled. Windows 95 continuously polls the applications to see if they are running and responding. When an application fails to respond, Windows 95 displays the [Not Responding] dialog box. In this dialog box, you can click the End Task button to close down the application. You lose all changes to data in the application since the last time you saved. Click Cancel to return to the application.
If the application misuses memory or has a fatal error that causes the application to crash, other applications in Windows are not usually affected. When an application fails to respond—if clicks or keystrokes get no response, for ...
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