Is there a Ctrl-Alt-Del for OS X?

If you want to invoke Force Quit using the keyboard, press Option-Command-Esc to bring up that window. Here are some others:

Keyboard shortcuts available in Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X
Control-Eject

The dialog box "Are you sure you want to shut down?" appears with options to Restart, Sleep, Cancel or Shut Down.

Control-Command-Eject

Quits all applications (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents) and restarts the computer.

Control-Option-Command-Eject

Quits all applications (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents) and shuts the computer down.

Command-Option-Eject

Puts the computer to sleep.

Hope this helps,

Mulder

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iMac G4 700Mhz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Via the Finder menu bar, there is a Force Quit option.

At the Finder menu bar, go to the Apple logo and select Force Quit or keyboard command - Command OptionEscape.

This brings up a window with all running applications with an indication next to the application or applications not responding. You can select a non-responding application and then Force Quit.

Your Mac should not be locking up every few days. As a first step, check Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption for system troubleshooting procedures and when doing so, follow all steps/instructions in the order provided.

Hi Yarzy

Your immediate question has been answered, but that does not address your problem. Your Mac should not only not lock up on you every few days, it should not lock up on you at all.

Have you opened Console, in your Utilities folder, and checked your logs? What apps are you running when this happens?

Matthew Whiting