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October 1st 08, 12:03 PM
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Shutting down safely in the event..
of non response .. :huh: I will explain :-) Last night I had my music as one does :-)..and a slideshow (windows media gallery) running .. when i came to close down ..found the controls tab wouldnt appear so as i could close down the slide show .. no matter what I did .. i couldnt access them at all ..so after an hour found i had to just pull the plug out .. which is bad news for any system eh . What I would like to know is in the event of that happening again is there a keyboard command (the escape key wouldnt respond either) ..that will close down said slideshow .. because of that i couldnt access anything else .. in plain english please .. am a computer nerd  Very frustrated -- kizzysmum 
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October 1st 08, 05:11 PM
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Shutting down safely in the event..
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 07:03:54 -0500, kizzysmum
wrote: of non response .. :huh: I will explain :-) Last night I had my music as one does :-)..and a slideshow (windows media gallery) running .. when i came to close down .found the controls tab wouldnt appear so as i could close down the slide show .. no matter what I did .. i couldnt access them at all ..so after an hour found i had to just pull the plug out .. which is bad news for any system eh . What I would like to know is in the event of that happening again is there a keyboard command (the escape key wouldnt respond either) ..that will close down said slideshow .. because of that i couldnt access anything else .. in plain english please .. am a computer nerd Very frustrated Did you try Ctrl-Alt-Delete? That will bring up a screen where you can choose to start the Task Manager which you can then use to shutdown the program. DDW -- Reply via this group No email please
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October 1st 08, 05:13 PM
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Shutting down safely in the event..
Ctrl+Alt+Del
should bring up the task manager, where you can end an application You may also find your PC has a Reset Btn "kizzysmum" wrote in message ... of non response .. :huh: I will explain :-) Last night I had my music as one does :-)..and a slideshow (windows media gallery) running .. when i came to close down .found the controls tab wouldnt appear so as i could close down the slide show .. no matter what I did .. i couldnt access them at all ..so after an hour found i had to just pull the plug out .. which is bad news for any system eh . What I would like to know is in the event of that happening again is there a keyboard command (the escape key wouldnt respond either) ..that will close down said slideshow .. because of that i couldnt access anything else .. in plain english please .. am a computer nerd Very frustrated -- kizzysmum
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