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I finally got so pissed off with crashed games refusing to release focus that I quickly put something very simple together to kill the foreground window’s process.

Binary: https://github.com/downloads/cdown/winkillfg/winkillfg.exe
Source: https://github.com/cdown/winkillfg/blob/master/winkillfg.c

You probably want to bind it to a key or something, and press that key when the window hangs and refuses to minimise. I don’t have any previous experience with Windows’ C interface, so if I am doing something naive/wrong I would like to hear about it.

Quoted from AnimaL

ctrl+alt+delete and end task usually is like few more clicks away :o

unless its some xp problem? :D

Crashed DirectX apps don’t always release focus to task manager. Often even when task manager is brought to the foreground the crashed process stops a redraw.

Quoted from dr.Justice

Sounds like you got some fucked up pc issues maybe PM Animal and he can help you out.

im just curious cuz i never had issues redrawing the allways on top task manager from ctrl+alt+del menu on w7… but i guess this can also help if ur lazy tbh :D 1 click app close

I’ve never had it with TF2, it seems to happen on every crash with L.A. Noire.

Quoted from FireStorm

Ctrl + Alt + Del is meant to be a forced attention sequence that should override any other app and mostly unless my computer had completed frozen, ie Num lock not working is a good test of this. It normally works, however if its blocking the taskman I can see it causing a problem but I’ve never had it. Task manager does always seem to draw for me.

CTRL + ALT + DEL works fine, the overlay appears. It’s after that that I get no redraw (on W7 Ultimate 32-bit).

Quoted from Spike Himself

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this probably sounds terribly stupid but if all it is is dx not redrawing, cant you just send it a redraw request with win32 api calls?

It’s not that it *doesn’t* redraw, it’s that it *can’t* redraw (because it has crashed).