Force Shutdown

Force Shutdown is a freeware Windows tool that can force your computer to shut down and thus get rid of apps that could block the process.

As you probably know by now, there are moments when you try to shut down the system and some running apps block it, requiring further actions to close them manually.

Well, that’s exactly the purpose of Force Shutdown. This lightweight program promises to launch a forced shutdown either from a System Tray icon or via a keyboard shortcut and thus prevent the aforementioned scenario.

You don’t really need to be a very experienced user to figure out the purpose of each feature. The Tray icon lets you instantly shut down the system, reboot it or log off, while more options are available in a dedicated screen.

Force Shutdown allows its users to set up hotkeys for each of the following operations: logoff, standby, hibernate, restart and shutdown. It can show a warning every time you start a forced shutdown and even hide the Tray icon to let you perform all these actions with the help of keyboard shortcuts exclusively.

Force Shutdown quietly sits in the Tray and doesn’t affect system performance, running smoothly on all Windows flavors currently on the market.

Overall, this is a handy piece of software that blocks all application prompts that could launch when you initiate a shutdown. The program works flawlessly on any Windows workstation and doesn’t require advanced computer knowledge to benefit from all its utilities.