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I wish Ctrl+Alt+Delete would be reliable enough to work with full-screen games. But, half the time, when you try to launch Task Manager that way to kill the offending process, it ends up under the game's output. I've learned to kill processes using keyboard navigation by looking at Task Manager's thumbnail in Alt-Tab process list, but it's ridiculous that we still need to do this kind of dance in 2023.


There's a way to make it always appear above other windows. Let me see if I can find that again...

Ah, it's in the options menu on the task manager itself (alt + O to access the menu without a mouse).


why would you ever want that turned off??


The problem is that it doesn't work reliably when a fullscreen game that is currently using the screen exclusively for itself suddenly crashes.




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