Is there something on teh mac i can do to get a box like the ctrl alt delete feateure of windows to see all the prosess's im using?
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ctrl+alt+delete?
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There's an app in the Utilities folder, within your Applications folder, called Activity Monitor. It's the Mac equivalent of Task Manager. 
Or if you want to be a little more cool to impress the ladies you can go open the terminal and enter the command 'top'.
Warning : Not for beginners like mad jew though.
Warning : Not for beginners like mad jew though.
.Andy said:
Hey!
Okay, that's a fair call.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Activity Monitor will show you My Processes by default (processes owned by the user) but there's a drop down list from which you can change it to All Processes.
Also, although you can force quit apps from Activity Monitor's processes page, a quicker way to force a frozen app to quit can be reached through COMMAND-OPTION-ESCAPE where COMMAND is the button with a little Apple logo thingy on it.
mad jew said:Hey!
Okay, that's a fair call.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Activity Monitor will show you My Processes by default (processes owned by the user) but there's a drop down list from which you can change it to All Processes.
Also, although you can force quit apps from Activity Monitor's processes page, a quicker way to force a frozen app to quit can be reached through COMMAND-OPTION-ESCAPE where COMMAND is the button with a little Apple logo thingy on it.
.Nice one - I was trying to remember COMMAND-OPTION-ESCAPE. Managed to hit COMMAND-OPTION-EJECT instead and put my computer to sleep
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.Andy said:
top -u -s3
would be better.. to sort by processes sucking the most CPU, and only polling every 3 seconds.
You can add a Ctrl+Alt+Del like function using Escape Pod by Ambrosia Soft.
Escape Pod allows one to terminate the foremost application with [Control]+[Alt]+[Del].
Good for games or poorly written media players that don't let you get back to the GUI easily.
Escape Pod allows one to terminate the foremost application with [Control]+[Alt]+[Del].
Good for games or poorly written media players that don't let you get back to the GUI easily.
- A summary of key board commands with in OS X
[Command]+[W] close window
[Option]+[Command]+[W] close all windows
[Option]+[Command]+[esc] Force Quit.
[Option]+[Comand]+[Power] force kill power.