Force a Frozen Application to Quit

Sometimes an application may stop responding to the keyboard or mouse, so that you cannot quit it as usual. The application may freeze, so that the window does not change, or it may display the spinning beach ball that indicates that the application is busy. When this happens, you usually need to force quit the application so that you can resume work.

Force a Frozen Application to Quit

Force Quit an Application from the Dock

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001 Pressing and holding , click the application’s icon on the Dock. Keep holding down the ...

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