I run IE 5.0 on a windows 98SE system. I tend to have 3 to 5 windows of it open at any given time and about once every couple of days one of these windows will become unresponsive, 99% of the time I can ctrl/alt/del end task and get rid of it but of course that takes all of the open IE windows with it. Any way to close only the offending window without killing the others?
Well if it isn’t listed as not responding, you could try alt + f4?
Been there done that, these are the ones that are listed as not responding on the list when I ctrl/alt/del.
I don’t think so. When IE becomes unresponsive, I think it is the core of the program that is affected, affecting all open windows. The core values are appied throughout, if you get my meaning there…
In most cases the other windows remain active. I can almost always finish reading what is in them or bookmark them to get at them later before I shut IE down completely.
IE (and Netscape) handles additional windows by creating an additional thread (this is called multithreading). A thread is considered a lightweight process; it has some characteristics of a separate process (such as that the operating system will give it its own timeslices, and might run it on another CPU if one is available), but is still part of the same process that all that other program’s threads are (note: some programs, such as command.com, or cmd.com for NT/Win2k users, allows itself to be run multiple times - each instance is a separate process, not a separate thread).
WAG part: Since threads owned by the same process share the same memory (at least in theory; depending on how the application is written, they could actually access separate portions of the same chunk of memory, but then that obviates one of the major advantages of using threads over separate processes), killing just one thread could likely corrupt the memory for the other threads owned by this process; therefore, Windows only allows you to kill the entire process.