Unfreeze your PC – in Easy Steps

Did your PC or laptop stop working and the mouse doesn’t move? Read on for step by step instructions for an easy way to unfreeze your PC.

On a PC:  press control, shift and escape at the same time OR mouse over your taskbar (usually at the bottom of your screen) and right click. Choose task manager. The task manager will pop up.

Click on the process that is frozen and that you want to end. (For this example, it is Google Chrome).

Press the ‘End task’ button in the bottom right corner. This should unfreeze your PC.

If you need a few more ideas for unfreezing your PC, check out this How To Geek article.

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