[Ocracoke Island]

8. End Task
A program hangs. You type...

So true. In Linux, you can use a GUI to force quit. If you prefer the command line, you simply find the process ID# with ps -aux and then kill [PID#] it. Always works.

[Turbopilot]

I'm not sure which version of Windows the author of this piece meant (the article is kind of a historical review of all Windows versions), but in XP you have the same two options. Ctrl+Shift+Esc to kill a process from the Task Manager, or taskkill /pid #### from the command line.

Sometimes there is a bit of a lag between when you kill a process in Task Manager and when it ceases to run (never from the command line, though). But it always works.