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Program to override usual window close button with superfast TerminateProcess?

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MilesAhead:
Thanks, looks pretty good - I might start using that. I'd like to get rid of the *other* confirmation box when it detects a program has crashed though.

But even better than this would be to allow a hotkey to force close the active/crashed window.

You can't set the detection level less than 15 seconds either which seems a bit arbitrary.
-Twinbee (March 26, 2015, 05:19 PM)
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There are bound to be hundreds(or at least a bunch anyway) of kill utilities on the freewae sites.  What struck me about this one was the mouse drag angle.  I could write a hotkey to kill the process that has the active window in a few lines.  But it wouldn't have much in the way of features.

I would give a try to sending the author an email or try contacting through the home page if there is a mechanism.  Many authors like to see that someone is actually using their utilities and may add a tweak.

anandcoral:
Twinbee,

You can try SuperF4 (free), http://superf4.googlecode.com/.

It is must have app for me. Since I develop programs, many a times they go into infinite loop. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F4 instantly closes them, even faster that opening task manager and searching and killing it.

I also use it to close FireFox at times when I have lots of tabs opened and one tab causes FF 'not responding'. Killing FF and then restarting it get me all tabs back and then I close the erroneous tab and have other tabs to read.

Regards,

Anand

Stoic Joker:
You can try SuperF4 (free), http://superf4.googlecode.com/.

It is must have app for me. Since I develop programs, many a times they go into infinite loop. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F4 instantly closes them, even faster that opening task manager and searching and killing it.-anandcoral (March 27, 2015, 06:09 AM)
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Now that does look handy! Another (unrelated) item I noticed on the authors website is Elevated Startup. I seem to recall there being several threads discussing a need for what it does...or at least appears to do.

MilesAhead:
You can try SuperF4 (free), http://superf4.googlecode.com/.

It is must have app for me. Since I develop programs, many a times they go into infinite loop. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F4 instantly closes them, even faster that opening task manager and searching and killing it.-anandcoral (March 27, 2015, 06:09 AM)
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Now that does look handy! Another (unrelated) item I noticed on the authors website is Elevated Startup. I seem to recall there being several threads discussing a need for what it does...or at least appears to do.
-Stoic Joker (March 27, 2015, 07:02 AM)
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I've downloaded and will try it in a bit.  It will be great if it works.  For example if you run WizMouse and set both Run As Administrator and Start with Windows, WizMouse creates a scheduled task to start itself on logon.  It works fine.  But I could sure use an easy hack for launching my stuff on W8.  Later on I'll have to look into how to handle auto start of programs on W8 and later as they seem to require RunAs.

Edit:  Your mileage may vary.  I have the slider on UAC all the way down to "do not notify me" of anything.  The first time I logged on using Elevated Startup I got the UAC.  I unchecked the "always notify" box.  The next boot it came up and started my run as programs.  Cool.  Now I can stop using the mouse double click macro thingy! :)

Edit2: Anyone else get a weird crash after running Elevated Startup?  I just unzipped a new copy of CCleaner Portable into the CCleaner folder and immediately got a "problem .. we're collecting data" crash.  Never got that before.  Strange.  I disabled it for now.

Edit3:  Before downloading Elevated Startup out of curiosity(since some of my programs would gain from auto start As Admin on W8 and likely W10) I took a look at the source.  It works by launching another instance of itself which then launches the other programs.  Somewhere in there it requests Debug privilege.  I'm thinking that is why I got the request to send info during the crash.  I don't like to run programs with Debug privilege as it just allows too much leeway to do stuff.  Not anything malicious in this utility.  But if you get an error it can be a lot bigger in Debug mode.  I have lots of mouse click stuff I wrote in the tray along with WizMouse so I'm not all that surprised I got a weird drag/drop operation.

I think I will check into how WizMouse does it, if possible. I hate to use scheduled tasks though.  :)

Twinbee:
SuperF4 looks good. I've used it, and it does indeed force close crashed programs!

A couple of niggles though. One is I can't adjust the hotkey. Two is if a program's crashed, and I click another program, and then I try to refocus the crashed window, it won't refocus, and SuperF4 ends up trying to close Windows or something else instead.

Anyway, a keeper for me :D Thanks muchly anandcoral!

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