what is the safest way to turn off / restart a hang MBP?

[Twe Foju]

so i dont know why my MBP hangs suddenly when i insert a dvd movie into the optical drive upon from waking up from sleep

and it just totally freeze, the mouse wont move, pressing any button wont do either

so i had to hold down the power button to shut it down that way

is it the safest way to shut it down my MBP while it's hanging?

because i dont know the "ctrl+alt+del" version for MAC

or is there any other button to specifically end a program like the "ctrl+alt+del" thing?

thanks in advanced

 

[skyrider007]

take the battery off and put it back again.

 

[Twe Foju]

why take off the battery?

any specific reason of taking off the batery instead of holding down the power button?

is there a button whom the function is similar to Win$'s Ctrl Alt Del function?

 

[darkcurse]

He's just joking (I hope). There really isn't a "safe" way of force shutting down a laptop. Though you could try ctrl + option + power button. This key combination forces tries to OS X to shutdown and is akin to ctrl + alt + del I guess. If all fails, either press and hold the power button or just pull out the battery

 

[Applespider]

You can force quit an application by pressing Command-Option-Escape

That will bring up a dialogue box asking you what you want to try to force quite - e.g. DVD Player and see if you can recover the system.

Alternatively, just hold down the Power button til it goes off.

 

[Twe Foju]

ok thanks guys

next time i'll try it, ( hopefully no more hanging on my MBP )

i think its also because of the DvD, you know most of the DvD in the place i live in, is mostly pirated

and i must admit, Apple's optic drive are rather sensitive

 

[CisternaChyli]

ok thanks guys

next time i'll try it, ( hopefully no more hanging on my MBP )

i think its also because of the DvD, you know most of the DvD in the place i live in, is mostly pirated

and i must admit, Apple's optic drive are rather sensitive

i had this same problem today, but my DVDs arent pirated..well it happened with my casino royale dvd..i havent tried others yet.