SuperF4 kills the foreground program when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. This is different from when you press Alt+F4. Alt+F4 only asks the foreground program to exit, allowing it to decide for itself what to do. Read more...

You can also kill a process by pressing Win+F4 and then clicking the window with your mouse. You can press escape or the right mouse button to exit this mode without killing a program.

SuperF4 should be able to kill all kinds of processes, whether they are hung or not. Beware though, SuperF4 effectively kills the program and doesn't give it a chance to save unsaved work etc... Note that sometimes explorer.exe is killed along with your program, this is a known bug and I haven't really figured out what is causing it. To start it again, simply get into the Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) and run explorer.exe.

SuperF4 has been featured in a Tekzilla daily, so you can watch the video to see how SuperF4 works before downloading it!

Program made by Stefan Sundin. If you feel this program is useful, please consider donating money. Send me an email and tell me what you think, or if you want to translate the program. You can also check out some of my other projects.

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Updates

2009-08-19: Released 1.1. This release fixes many small bugs and updating is recommended. No major feature added. New language: Galician by Alexander De Sousa. Alexander has also helped me fix some bugs, thanks! :)

2009-01-12: Released 1.0. Finally 1.0! Yay! Not many new features though, but I think SuperF4 now accomplishes what I set out for it to do. SuperF4 is now available in Spanish thanks to Fabrizio Ferri. I have also opened a forum which I hope you'll use to discuss SuperF4 and my other tools, let me know what's good and what's bad. Finally, I would like to let you know that I have put donating details on the site, so if you feel this program is useful, please consider donating money.

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Changelog

1.1 - 2009-08-19:

• Fixed mouse cursor not changing when pressing Win+F4 if Aero was disabled in Vista.
• Mouse cursor now spans multiple monitors.
• Language can now be changed in SuperF4.ini.
• A lot of small bug fixes.

1.0 - 2009-01-12:

• Requests SeDebugPrivilege in a more secure way.
• Merged hooks.dll into SuperF4.exe.
• The mouse cursor now changes when you press Win+F4.
• Removed log file.
• Added update checking.

Common misspellings: SuperAltF4, Super Alt F4.