Microsoft KB Archive/115888

= How to Force a Hung Macintosh Application to Quit =

Article ID: 115888

Article Last Modified on 11/17/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FoxPro 2.5b for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 2.5c for Macintosh
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q115888



SUMMARY
To force FoxPro for Macintosh to quit, press the key combination COMMAND+OPTION+ESC.

CAUTION: Unsaved changes will be lost.



MORE INFORMATION
This is not the recommended way to quit from an application, and should only be used when FoxPro or a FoxPro program or application has hung (stopped responding).

Pressing COMMAND+OPTION+ESC causes the following Macintosh dialog box to display:

Force "Microsoft FoxPro" to quit?

Unsaved changes will be lost.

The choices in the dialog box are "Force Quit" and "Cancel."

NOTE: This technique can be used with any Macintosh application.

(c) Microsoft Corporation 2000, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by Kevin Zollman, Microsoft Corporation.

Additional query words: VFoxMac FoxMac froze freeze hangs kill abort execution halted terminate stop cancel interrupt lock up frozen hang akz

Keywords: KB115888

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