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Keyboard Shortcuts for when your Mac freezes

May 8, 2009 by Ross McKillop 

The following list of keyboard shortcuts will come in handy when your Mac freezes up (which as we all know isn’t that frequent of an event).

I’ve ordered this list in a “start with this one, if it doesn’t work, try the next one” manner.

  1. Quit the currently running foreground program - Command + q
  2. Open the Force Quit window - Command + Option + Escape
  3. Force Restart - Command + Control + Power Key
  4. Force Shutdown - Command + Option + Shift + Power Key

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3 Responses to “Keyboard Shortcuts for when your Mac freezes”

  1. Bill on May 14th, 2009 12:49 pm

    Why would anyone need these? All the MAC vs PC adverts tell me a Mac never freezes…

  2. John on May 15th, 2009 1:14 pm

    I had used pc’s for decades. They all froze up quite often. I have had a mac for three years, it froze up once (due to a bad hard drive).

  3. Matthew on May 28th, 2009 12:10 am

    I just had a question, why would you need to hold down a key combination if you are forcing a shutdown? I know that holding the power button is not good on the system, but how does the force shutdown key combination differ?

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