If you’re new to OSX and are looking for a task manager to kill a hanging app, you’re not going to get very far with your normal 3 finger salute. Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn’t do anything in OSX. You have three ways to manage your running apps:

• Open the Utility called “Activity Monitor” which lets you see all the running processes and kill them at will
• If your machine is moving too slow to try and launch a new app, hold down Command + Alt + Esc to bring up  a dialogue that will let you kill any open apps
• Open Terminal and type “killAll <appname>” where <appname>” is the name of the application (i.e. “killAll Mail” will kill mail)

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