Instantly End All Programs With One Shortcut

Thankfully this problem doesn’t occur as frequently with Windows 7 compared to it’s predecessors, but the odd time it does happen. All is well, you’re in extreme multitasking mode, running a hundred and one things on 4 different monitors, and then suddenly, your computer seems to have a processor heartattack. It’s RAM becomes clogged up and nothing happens, everything just freezes and your stuck there frantically trying to close everything with your task manager, but nothing is working.  (I know I may be exaggerating slightly here)

So what do you do? Wouldn’t it be handy if you could just click one shortcut, and it ended all your problems instantly? There is some programs that you can install which claim to do that, but they’re not much good when your computers frozen, and besides, thats just more unnecessary software to install.

Why not just have a simple shortcut that kills all the processes instantly for you, the quickest way to close your programs. Just make sure your comfortable doing this as it does kill off all the running proccesses, so everything your doing will be closed immediately, without the chance to save.

Simple go to your desktop, right click -> New Shortcut and than paste the following command into the box that pops up. Be sure to replace the “windows7news” with your own username

taskkill /F /FI "USERNAME eq windows7news" /FI "IMAGENAME ne explorer.exe" /FI "IMAGENAME ne dwm.exe"

Then all you have to do is save the shortcut as whatever you want, ie . ” App Killer” and then get a cool icon for it. Windows 7 has the one seen below atC:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll

Just right click on your shortcut then go to properties and change icon.

So be sure to save the shortcut on your desktop or in your taskbar for quick access, and next time you have a program overload, a simple click or double click will sort it out