Dear Will,
Well, it won't shut down all windows at once, but I use Alt-F4,
which is the Windows key-combo for closing an application, and
simply repeat as applications are closed, and others come to the
forefront.
The application must be the active window for this to work.
Also, on the task bar you can right-click on each application, and
select "Close".
Hope this helps,
Anthony Albert
On 30 Nov 2000, at 21:39, Will Baldwin wrote:
> I wish there was a key combination to close all open windows (programs) in
> Win98, before I shutdown my computer. If I just click Shutdown, letting
> Windows close the programs, the way the programs are closed seems to be buggy,
> resulting in strange things happening the next time I reboot my computer, and
> run the same programs. I read up a little about how this is accomplished by
> Windows, somewhere. All I know, is that my system works better, and reboots
> better the next time, if I close all programs first, manually, before shutting
> down Windows.
>
> Now, why isn't there a key combo to do this? There is a key combination to
> minimize all windows, so why not one to close all windows? Well, maybe part
> of the reason is that that way might have to rely on the same buggy method
> that the Shutdown algorithm uses.
>
> The closest thing I have found, that isn't quite what I wanted, but is a
> little easier, I found on the MS Knowledge base:
>
> "...Closing several programs at once
> Want to close a whole bunch of programs and windows at once? Here's a cool
> trick:
>
> 1.Select the programs and documents
> you want to close by pressing and
> holding down CTRL and left-clicking each
> item's button on the taskbar.
> 2.Right-click one of the selected buttons,
> and then click Close.
> ...
>
> Well, does anyone know a key combo, or maybe even a little utility that would
> close all programs *cleanly*, prior to shutting down Windows?
>
> Oh, a nifty macro key program I found, named AutoIt, has a way to do this
> also, but it warns you that you might lose any unsaved data, so I haven't
> bothered to try it yet.
>
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