Game black screen that block others windows when alt tab
THis is happen like a pattern, meaning that it away happen, and if I got myself into, I cannot get out. Restart with hardware button is the only option.
If I have game (require heavy graphic like Dota 2, ... ) at full screen, and I somehow cause the game to hang, it shown black screen.
Alt-tab, I can see the task bar.
Ctrl-tab-del can turn on Task Manager. I want to turn on task manager. But somehow the "black screen" block everything is not the taskbar. So, I alt-tab, I can see the "preview" of windows. I can switch to task manager. However I cannot force the task manger to be on front (the black screen just cover task manager).
I just need to force kill the game. So I need task manger. The problem, said above, task manager stay behind the black full-screen game.
21 Answer
Two things you could try:
As Tetsujin mentioned, set your task manager to always on top in the Options menu, then when you get stuck, you can invoke it with ctrl + shift + esc. If you're sure task manager is open already and you forgot to do it beforehand, you can "blindly" set this option by hitting alt + o then alt + d to navigate the menu even if you can't see it.
Call up task view by hitting win + tab, and opening a new desktop.
