Occasionally, at least on my system, the Finder locks up so that menus and other windows are inaccessible, but items on the desktop can be opened and used normally. The best thing to do in these situations is to restart, but since the menus can't be used, I wrote this program. It's less than 5K, and when left on the desktop, will allow you to restart without using a menu. Note that open applications will NOT prompt you to save changes to open documents, but the file system will be shut down properly.