In all the years I've worked on Microsoft's OS, it has yet to ever successfuly find a solution. So what is it really doing? I suspect it's just waiting for the program to respond to something. What, I don't know.
It's a useless dialog in this sense as well: it has only a single button, "Cancel." So now I have to take action which still won't do anything.
Here's my proposal, part of which is stolen from Apple. Actually, let me first suggest that computers should never have these types problems. It's a flaw in the OS to have applications lock up as often as they do on a brand new (as of August 2011) computer (yet they do. Get with it, computer maufacturers!). In lieu of that pipe-dream ever getting solved, I would like to propose that if an app is non-responsive, the OS takes it and hides it away, clearing up the desktop for us and not tempting us with thinking we can click on it. Then, a la Apple, have its task bar icon bounce up a couple of times, or glow red when I move my cursor near it. Then, if I actually click on the icon, have a message drawer extend out and tell me, "Sorry, this app is behaving badly. What would you like to do?" then have some options: "Force Close", "Ignore, for now", "Give it 10 secs, then force close" or similar.
Force close is the most common thing I'd imagine would happen. On my Mac, if an app freezes up (i.e. Firefox. What happened to you guys?), I have to force close it about 20% of the time. On my PC, if it freezes longer than 20 seconds, I have to end the process on it 100% of the time. If I have to do it that often, make it easy for me.
Funny how it takes a human to fix a computer's problem.
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