How do you close a web page that is frozen?

Answer 1

Alot of the times in Windows, a Window has a tendency to freeze. Which can become very annoying and cause the Operating System to freeze if the program persists. Windows freeze due to a # of problems, most which is unknown most of the time. Usually the window will freeze and your mouse pointer will turn into an hour-glass while you see the menu of the window titled "not responding". You can try right-clicking on the program while it's in the taskbar and choosing to "close". However this does not always work. The best way to do this is to press Control+Alt+Delete and then click the button titled "Task Manager". You will then see a list of programs/services running in Windows, find the correct name of the frozen program, highlight it and then click the "End Process" button. However, if it's just a folder window or similar in Windows, this will not be displayed in the task manager. You can try simply right-clicking the frozen window in the taskbar and left-clicking close, repeat this process until the frozen window finally closes. Most of the time this will be successful. In some cases, you may have to do a hard or soft boot if all completely freezes up.

Answer 2

Hold the power button for 10 seconds, this forces the hardware to shutdown. The only problem is if the computer is writing to the hard drive, when you do this it can cause small corruptions in data.

Answer 3

One way to close a web page that is frozen, go to your Start menu and select shut down. The frozen page should go away. If you don't want to turn off your computer, press Cancel when it gives you the option to Force shut down the computer or Cancel shutting down. But you have to be quick, you have just seconds to cancel it.

Answer 4

Hold the power button until it turns off. That works in most cases. If not, take the battery out.