programs "running"

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:03 am

Who coined that expression that a program is "running"? Heck, I am sitting here for ages already, watching my application crawl through what it has to do.

TheCops · Post by **TheCops** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:11 am

take a walk.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:14 am

Too tired and have been walking to and fro at the doctor's for an hour already today.

roid · Post by **roid** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:28 am

programs run from their responsability

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Fri May 13, 2005 9:56 am

If you translate the word we use in Dutch literally, you say "programs are turning"..

Flatlander · Post by **Flatlander** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:49 am

I think it's short for "runtime."

Krags · Post by **Krags** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:01 pm

Maybe you'd like to execute that program instead.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:13 pm

Windows doesn't have a kill command tho..

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:26 pm

I'm going to Das Boot it.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:07 pm

Grendel wrote:Windows doesn't have a kill command tho..

Sure it does!

The three finger salute!

(and if you're in NT/2000/XP (with friendly logon disabled in XP) you'll get the option to run Task Manager, which can kill any visible program "running".

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DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sat May 14, 2005 1:48 am

Hell, in XP with Friendly Logon enabled, CTRL+ALT+DEL gives you the task manager immediately.

Plus there's a DOS program called kill that can be installed from the Windows CD. It even matches regular expressions... "kill fire*" killes process named firefox, firebird, etc. Just never do "kill *".

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Sat May 14, 2005 2:57 am

DCrazy wrote:Plus there's a DOS program called kill that can be installed from the Windows CD. It even matches regular expressions... "kill fire*" killes process named firefox, firebird, etc. Just never do "kill *".

Heh, I remember that. I tried kill * just because you said not to.

pATCheS · Post by **pATCheS** » Sat May 14, 2005 3:54 am

ctrl+shift+esc opens the Task Manager no matter what kind of logon you use. I imagine it works on any NT OS with the Task Manager in it.

roid · Post by **roid** » Sat May 14, 2005 3:39 pm

(thx patches i hadn't known that shortcut till now, it'l save some time.)

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sat May 14, 2005 11:01 pm

Vindi: yeah, Krom pointed out the link to the file on microsoft.com. The first thing I did after downloading it was "kill *". Instant reboot.

Lobber · Post by **Lobber** » Mon May 16, 2005 3:51 am

I think it came from the fact that you had to type

RUN

in basic to actually start a program that was in memory.