SuperF4

SuperF4: Force Close Unresponsive Apps with Keyboard Shortcuts

Small utility to force close unresponsive applications using Alt + F4, a keyboard shortcut

What is SuperF4?

SuperF4 is a lightweight utility program for Windows that provides an enhanced alternative to the standard Alt + F4 keyboard shortcut for closing programs. It allows users to forcefully terminate unresponsive or frozen applications that are not closing properly using the normal methods.

The standard Alt + F4 shortcut requests that a program closes itself gracefully. However, if an application freezes or hangs, this request is often ignored. SuperF4 gets around this by sending a force quit command to the application instead of relying on the application to voluntarily close itself.

To use SuperF4, after an application has become unresponsive, the user simply presses the Alt + F4 shortcut as usual. If the application does not close after a few seconds, SuperF4 will identify that the standard shutdown request has failed and will forcefully terminate the program directly. This provides a convenient keyboard-driven way to close frozen windows without having to resort to the Task Manager.

With its reliability and easy shortcut-based invocation, SuperF4 saves users time when dealing with unresponsive programs. It works smoothly in the background until needed, requiring no configuration while adding productivity and convenience to the Alt + F4 shortcut that Windows users are already familiar with.

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