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Alternatively just switch applications
Authored by: sjonke on Nov 20, '02 10:23:01AM

Just switch to another application (the finder or whatever) and then bring up force quit window via the apple menu or the keyboard shortcut. You'll have to select the right app to force quit, of course, but this should display the window which otherwise was invisible due to the crashed application.



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Alternatively just switch applications
Authored by: wanderer on Nov 20, '02 02:20:41PM

Actually, some game like Warcraft 3 will freeze the whole system, the dock, the keyboard, and the mouse won't response at all. So, you can't really switch to other applications. It make you think it really crashed the whole system, but most the time it isn't. Warcraft 3 crashed alot on me, that's how I found this little neat trick to get out the frozen warcraft 3 without resetting my Mac. So this might help some of you gamer from rebooting your Mac.

BTW, I'm the one that post this hint.


Eric



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