How To Close All Open Programs At Once

I came across this small utility today while browsing through different blogs on the net.  Its called CloseAll and it closes all open programs in Windows at once. There isn't much to it. Its a simple program that requires no install. Also you can easily point it out to the quick launch bar so you access it anytime using just a single click. 

Why Should I Use It?


Although it doesn't do anything spectacular, I still recommend that everyone should have it. Why?? Here are some situations where you may find it useful.

• You try to install a program and it asks you to close all open programs. So you could just close all programs one by one or you could just click on this program and all open programs will be closed in less than a second.

• You have a lot of programs open at the same time and your windows starts to slow down. So much so that you could hardly move your mouse to the close button. Pretty rare but believe me this happens So you click on this program and within an instant your windows is up and running again.

• You have opened up a lot of programs at once and you just want to shut down your PC. So you are not really in the mood to close all those programs using the taskbar or clicking the cross button one by one so you click on this and task completed.

I could go on and on with this list but I hope you get my point. 

Click here to download Close All(36 Kb)

How To Point Close All To Quick Launch Bar

• Right Click on the zip file you downloaded earlier and extract it

• Open the folder where you extracted the file

• Now just drag and drop the close all file to the quick launch bar. To drag it click on it and move your mouse to the quick launch bar as shown below.

             

Note 1: If you run a 64 bit windows operating system, make sure to choose the file present in the x64 folder

Note 2: If you can't see the quick launch bar in the taskbar, right click on the taskbar, click on toolbars and select quick launch from there

Advanced Options:

So what if you want to close all open programs except your browser(or anything else). You can manually add the programs you want to exclude. To do this follow these steps:

• First create a shortcut to the CloseAll program. Right click on the file and click on create shortcut

• Now right click on the shortcut you made and click on properties

• In the target window add the following commands at the end (-x="app-to-exclude.exe") without the brackets. Here "app-to exclude" should be replaced by the program you want excluded. For ex: type -x="chrome.exe" to exclude Google Chrome. Also you could add more than one program using the '|' seperator. For ex: -x="chrome.exe|notepad.exe|iexplore.exe"

Final Verdict:

To test how good this program is, I opened more than 20 applications at once with Close All setup in the quick launch. And I clicked on the program. It took 1-2 secs to close all the open programs. Pretty effective.

 

Note that it closes only the programs that are there on the taskbar. Tasks running in the background are not effected in any way. I highly recommend it to all of you. So did you try it out?? I would love to hear from you.

All Credit goes to Alexander Avdonin. from Ntwind

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Okozo - Interactive Wallpapers Are Fun

Well this is not the first time am talking about this great software. In the post How to transform windows 7 to windows 8, i showed you how to use this software to get some interactive wallpapers so that windows 7 looks more like windows 8.

Interactive polaroid wallpaper available in okozo

At that time i didn't have any time to test this software. But yesterday i tested this out and i was amazed to see how cool this software is and i highly recommend it. So i decided to provide a full review of 'Okozo'. Lets begin...

OKOZO REVIEW :

Okozo is a free software that enables you to change your boring image backgrounds to something interactive, something fun. It uses flash to provide this functionality. And currently it supports windows vista and windows 7 only.

Now before i provide any download links and ask to install it, i want to show you what is okozo up to.You can just go to their website and see how each wallpaper looks and feels.  I have tested almost every wallpaper available on the Okozo website and these are some of the wallpapers i liked the most.. Click on them to see how they look(behave)..

• Interactive fish wallpaper - Convert your desktop into a live aquarium
• Interactive flies - Flies overtaking your desktop
• 3D spinning globe - A cool 3D spinning globe
• Hamster - One of the most interesting wallpaper, check it out
• Falling leaves - Leaves falling from a tree. Simple and beautiful

The falling leaves wallpaper from okozo

You may have noticed that there is a similar gadget in this blog too. You can see that at the right side:D Now that you know how great or how bad this software is you may be either extremely excited to download this or may be not. Well i am sure you are pretty excited, and here is the download link, Okozo download(lmgtfy link:D)

The installation is a bit lengthy, it downloads quite a lot of things once you start it. Once you are finished installing this you will see that there aren't any wallpapers available by default(except the okozo one). So next you have to go to okozo's site and from there you can download as many wallpapers as you want. Once downloaded just open the downloaded wallpaper and after that click on reload in the okozo software window. Next click on apply and you are done.

I highly recommend that you try this right now, am sure you won't be disappointed. If you have any questions or you didn't understand anything you are always welcome to leave your precious comments here, and i will respond as soon as possible.

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