Throwback: Open Task Manager FAST With this Quick Trick
Forget the three-finger salute! Learn a faster way to access the Task Manager in Windows and quickly shut down those pesky unresponsive programs.
By Rodger Mansfield, Technology Editor
August 28, 2024 - First published September 3, 2015
The Task Manager app is the best tool to exit a non-responding program. The Task Manager displays programs, processes and services that are currently running on your computer. You can use Task Manager to check your PC's performance too. And...close down an application that has frozen.
We've all usually opened the Task Manager by using the ALT-CTRL+DELETE (the three finger Windows salute!) to get to the security screen and then choosing the Task Manager option.
There is a much faster way.
Press and hold CTRL + SHIFT + ESC