Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition

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How 2 FORCE close GTA4 after freezing if the win+shift+arrow function doesn't work resulting in the taskmgr being hidden.
By LVX_AGENT
Are you absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ aggravated like me because ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ after the latest windows update, your win10 system cannot use basic functions like multitasking and snap windows?

1. Download and install AHK.
2. Create an empty text file, and change the extension to '.ahk'
3. Copy the following code and paste it in said document.

"

^l::
Process, Close, GTAIV.exe
return

"

4. Save said document and make sure the file extension stays as '.ahk.' If you failed here you selected txt (which is the default) when saving and you will have to re-change the extension to '.ahk'
5. Run the script as administrator just in case.
6. Now you can boot GTA IV and use the script in case of emergencies.

(This AHK script is configured to activate using Ctrl+L but with basic ahk coding you can change this hotkey to whatever you like. This script is also a good killswitch for any other games you may have issues with. GTAV is another game that comes to mind that often has this top-window persistence bug when freezing. You can change the "GTAIV.exe" section to reflect any .exe for any game or application you wish. For example, if you wanted this script to work with GTA 5, then you would change the "GTAIV.exe" with "GTA5.exe" This may also help close persistent sketchy applications that you cannot close normally!)

Hope this helps some of you because this was absolutely infuriating to me.
   
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Can't believe this is an issue to begin with.
Microsoft needs to fix their ♥♥♥♥.