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Home computer use: Windows 7: task manager, audiodg.exe, and AudioSrv

By Jack Posted on December 28, 2016 Posted in home computer use, Windows Tagged with task manager

The tutor shares some experience about investigating a computer that is running fast. When no-one is using a computer, and it’s not meant to be doing anything in particular, it might be expected to be idle. Sometimes, however, the Windows …

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Comp Sci: command prompt testing (Windows 7): how to kill a runaway program

By Jack Posted on August 15, 2016 Posted in computer science, java, windows Tagged with Ctrl+C, how to kill a process in Windows 7, how to open the Windows task manager, how to stop a program running from the command line, how to stop a runaway program, how to stop an application, task manager

The tutor brings up a couple of “emergency procedures” for stopping a program. I don’t write many big programs; rather, I’ll often write a page or so of code (with lots of white space) to test a utility from a …

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Home computer use: Windows 7: task manager, audiodg.exe, and AudioSrv

Comp Sci: command prompt testing (Windows 7): how to kill a runaway program