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# How to kill the App process?

${color}[#676767](**Sometimes when the App is unresponsive or freezing due to certain circustances such as latency, an overloaded CPU or even a bug and closing or quitting the App is not working, you might need to end the process to be able to restart the App.**)

### How to end the process?

###### On Mac

1. Open the Activity Monitor application (it’s in Applications → Utilities).
2. Find the **drovio-core** process in the list and click it.
3. Click the Stop button (the one with the X icon).


###### On Windows

1.  Right click on the task bar and select the Task Manager. 
2. Find the **drovio-core** process.
3. Right click on it and select **End task**, then repeat with the **drovio-gui** process.

###### On Linux

1. Open the terminal.
2. Enter the `killall drovio-core` command.