All 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.
Answer from Adriano Varoli Piazza on Stack ExchangeAll 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.
How to close all windows at once
How to close all open windows at once?
Is there a way to close these at the same time?
How to close windows desktops.
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.
I'm doing some testing and frequently need to gracefully close all open apps either before running a program or rebooting. The batch file and PowerShell methods I've tried shut down chrome improperly, so I need to restore all open tabs. I want to simulate closing the app manually.
The main apps I typically have open are Chrome, Word, Titan Mail, Thunderbird, an image management program, Photoshop, possibly other Office or Adobe programs, and Notepad.