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  • Task Manager doesn't work to kill the program? If that's the case you might need to log off.
    – Karan
    Commented May 11, 2015 at 20:08
  • But logging off may cause unsaved data lost
    – DMaster
    Commented May 12, 2015 at 8:37
  • Yes, but when you have an aggressive process hogging all resources by opening multiple instances, pretty soon you'll be able to do nothing as the system will become near-unresponsive. If possible you can quickly close apps and answer Yes when they ask to save, then log off. That, or try and open Task Manager and somehow kill the process, but that might be difficult if it keeps spawning new windows that overlap or steal the focus.
    – Karan
    Commented May 12, 2015 at 17:56
  • It seems Windows does not provides enough tools for secure control, sometimes user must surrender. Where is a helpful tool which help me to undo this accident?
    – DMaster
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 6:20
  • What you've described is basically a fork bomb, and even on Linux it can exhaust resources quickly if ulimit -u is not used. For the record I had Firefox running and Word and Notepad open with unsaved files, and was able to log off. Windows then showed me that it was killing all the instances of your program, and when all were gone I quickly cancelled the log off and was able to continue my work without any problems.
    – Karan
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 1:28