You're most welcome.
Answer from Brink on learn.microsoft.comAll answers I could quickly find on this topic involve either the tip Molly gave or using an application (or coding it yourself). For example (I haven't tried this), Close All Windows.
Also, by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc you get the Windows Task Manager, where you can see all running applications at once (among other things), select them, and End Task them.
I like to see my open windows ungrouped, but realized that this i.e. closing multiple windows at once was a problem with such a setting. A less time-taking method would be to use the command line like this :
taskkill /im explorer.exe -f
And then restart explorer using :
explorer
Caution : This will cause processes like file copying on the default Windows interface to abort.
Is there a way to close these at the same time?
Quickly close all windows at once
Is there a button that closes out all windows at the same time? Tired of closing them all one at a time.
How to close all windows at once
Videos
I selected 100 over videos and pressed enter. I thought it would start from beginning and play it from start to end. Similar to what i would do if i opened multiple images.
Well i selected 100 over videos and pressed enter. Now my computer is stuck because there are too many videos opening at once and its too slow. Even pressing control alt del is really slow. I want to kill all processes and kill anything else that is coming up as well. I closed all windows using task bar but it only killed the ones open and not the ones that were opening.
Now my computer is slowly filling up with the prompt "The application is not responding. This program may respond again if you wait. Do you want to end this process?" This is just one of the prompts for my 100 over prompts which will come later.
If this happens again, is there a command i can press on my computer to cancel everything and freeze all processes from continuing without shutting down my computer? Thanks
The fastest native solution seems to be Win + Tab and then middle-click the Apps to close them.
The best 3rd party solution I found is 7+ Taskbar Tweaker. You can configure it to close Tasks by middle-click to the tasks entry immediately in the task bar. Unfortunately, Taskbar Tweaker seems to be tailor-fit very closely to Windows and broke with every major update (Anniversary, Creator). The maintainer each time fixed it within some weeks, but meanwhile everything defaults to the old behavior of opening new instances instead of closing old ones.
In my case, I simply open the task manager, then in the tab Application, I select the Apps to close, then I click the End task button.