With SmartClose, the process is a bit slower than Close All, as it takes a snapshot of all of your currently running programs, so that you can restore them later on. This same issue also occurs with Smart Close even though it has an option to kill programs, it doesn’t seem to work properly.

Close All does not kill the process in this instance, so you have to manually close that particular app. Another caveat to the program is that if you have a program open with unsaved data, the program will ask you if you want to save your data. Obviously, your computer will be running different applications and your results may vary, but Close All does the best job of closing the most apps.Īs I mentioned earlier, there is no way to restore the apps you shut down using Close All. Just click OK and you’re done! For test purposes, I opened about 10 to 15 programs on a Windows 7 PC and Close All was able to shut them all down. By default, all apps are selected, but you can uncheck an app if you do not want to close it.

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