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

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 "ctrlaltdel" version for MAC
or is there any other button to specifically end a program like the "ctrlaltdel" thing?
thanks

masagaadaygbisa wrote:
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 "ctrlaltdel" version for MAC
or is there any other button to specifically end a program like the "ctrlaltdel" thing?
thanks
You can try a "force quit" by holding down the "alt-option""Apple-command""esc" keys where a window pops up and you can then, er, force quit any running application. But in your case where nothing is responsive not even the keyboard, then the way you're shutting down the MBP is fine. You may want to run a Permissions repair thru the disc utility and make sure the disc is fine.
HTH.

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