A window has frozen on my macbook and i cant shut down my mac.

a window has frozen on my macbook and i cant shut down my mac on system prefrences.
is there nother way i can shut down  my mac to get rid of this window

How to Quit an Unresponsive Application using Force Quit - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3411.

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