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How to Stop an App That Has Run Amok on Your Samsung Galaxy Tablet

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Sometimes, apps on your Samsung Galaxy tablet that misbehave let you know. You see a warning on the screen announcing the app’s stubborn disposition. When that happens, touch the Force Quit button to shut down the app. Then say, “Whew!” Unfortunately, the app doesn’t always let you know that it is going to misbehave and you have to take matters into your own hands.

When you don’t see a warning or when an app appears to be unduly obstinate, you can shut ’er down the manual way, by following these steps:

  1. From the Apps screen, open the Settings app.

  2. On the left side of the screen, select the Application Manager item.

    Choose the General tab from the top of the Settings app screen if you don’t readily see the Application Manager item.

  3. Select the app that’s causing you distress.

    For example, the program doesn’t start or says that it’s busy or has some other issue.

    If you swipe the right side of the screen over to the Running item, you see only currently running apps. That helps narrow the list.

  4. Touch the Stop button.

    The program stops.

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Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for 20 years. He has contributed articles to numerous high-tech magazines and written more than 90 books about personal computing technology, many of them accurate.
He combines his love of writing with his interest in technology to create books that are informative and entertaining, but not boring. Having sold more than 14 million titles translated into more than 30 languages, Dan can attest that his method of crafting computer tomes does seem to work.
Perhaps Dan’s most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991. It became the world’s fastest-selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times number-one best seller (although, because it’s a reference book, it could not be listed on the NYT best seller list). That book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomenon to this day.
Dan’s most recent titles include PCs For Dummies, 9th Edition; Buying a Computer For Dummies, 2005 Edition; Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies; Dan Gookin’s Naked Windows XP; and Dan Gookin’s Naked Office. He publishes a free weekly computer newsletter, “Weekly Wambooli Salad,” and also maintains the vast and helpful Web site www.wambooli.com.