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General Category => Help and Support => Topic started by: GrahamB on May 21, 2026, 04:40:56 PM

Title: Kill and restart a hung app
Post by: GrahamB on May 21, 2026, 04:40:56 PM
Sometimes Firefox on my PC locks up with YouTube and I'd like a quick way to kill and restart it. Is there an easy way to do it without opening Task Manager or right clicking its task bar button?
Title: Re: Kill and restart a hung app
Post by: Paul (Lead Developer) on May 21, 2026, 11:10:20 PM
You can do it with a hotkey set to an action like this:

(Start)
HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 Computer: Terminate process "firefox.exe"
0002 Wait: For milliseconds to pass "500"
0003 Computer: App launch "firefox.exe"
(End)

Which looks like this in the "Automation" tab for the action:

(https://www.alomware.com/images/forum/kill-and-restart-process.png)

Note that in step 3 of the action, the path to the process ("firefox.exe") isn't needed because Firefox is officially installed. So with portable apps, or apps that aren't installed via a "Setup.exe" file, you will need to include the path to the exe in step 3 as well.