Getting REALLY frustrated with my mac freezing

Okay so OS X rarely freezes on me but when it does it's like all hell breaks loose.

Sometimes I'm in a fullscreen app and the app freezes, everything else on my mac still works, my iTunes plays and teamspeak is still working but *just* the full screen app freezes. If I command option escape nothing happens, and if I command tab nothing happens. On Windows even if the active window is frozen you can still ctrl alt del, but on my Mac it seems like if something's frozen there is *absolutely nothing* I know about as to how to just close the frozen app without having to completely power button my iMac.

And then when I do have to power button my iMac for whatever reason, upon it turning back on all my apps reopen. I know you can disable this when you choose the shutdown option from the apple logo, but when you power button the mac it automatically reopens all apps. Is there any way to just completely disable this feature? Every time it happens my entire machine is just raped with applications opening

 

27" iMac MacBook pro and a g4 but my problems that command option escape and command tab only work when the active window isn't frozen, which means when any full screen app freezes on me I have to power button. It's been that way for me for years but it's just really frustrating because power buttoning just because one application is frozen when everything else is still running fine drives me crazy!

 

That is an awesome solution, I am so doing that and installing an ssh app on the iPad