 CLOSE MULTIPLE PROGRAMS SIMULTANEOUSLY |
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It's a good idea to close all of your applications before defragging or scanning your drive, backing up important files, installing a new application, or even playing a demanding game. Unfortunately, Windows offers no easy way to close all running apps simultaneously but there is a program that does. It's called Kill Win, and it's free. You can download it from www.borgking.de/bk-soft or from FileWorld. It requires Visual Basic 4.0 runtime, another freebie that you can download from either site.
Like many other programs, Kill Win puts an icon in your system tray for shutting down Windows -- not a job worth doing, in my opinion. But it also allows you to create a shortcut that will close all of your running applications. My advice: Download and install the program, and create this shortcut, but don't set the program to run automatically. To create the shortcut, open the folder where you've installed Kill Win and drag the file Exits95.exe to your desktop. Right-click the shortcut, select Properties, and add a space and /w to the end of what's already in the "Target" field, turning the command into something like 'C:\killwin\killwin.exe /w'. Click OK, rename the shortcut Close Apps, and move it to a location on the desktop, the QuickLaunch bar, or the Start menu. |
Category:Windows 9x Issue: January 2000 |
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