How to force close all windows on mac
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Follow OSXDaily. News - iOS Take a moment to remember a few keyboard shortcuts or sequences now ,and save yourself a hassle later when Mac apps start acting up. And yes, these tricks work in all versions of OS X.
Close All Windows in a Mac App with a Keystroke
Starting with one of the best and easiest is the system wide Force Quit function: That Force Quit keyboard shortcut is probably the best combination of easy and power when force quitting apps in Mac OS X, since you can access it with a keystroke, select and force quit multiple apps if necessary, and summon it from anywhere.
Be sure to do this while the app you want to force quit is the foremost application on the Mac, as it will force quit whatever is active when held down. This is not well known, but offers perhaps the quickest way to force quit the foreground application in Mac OS X and a very good keyboard shortcut to remember. This is easy to remember but not necessarily the most powerful method, since sometimes an application is completely unresponsive and the menus are inaccessible.
How to Close All the Windows in (Pretty Much) Any Mac Application
Activity Monitor is a powerful way to forcibly quit any app, task, daemon, or process running on Mac OS X. Using Activity Monitor is very easy: You can think of this as the Mac equivalent to a task manager from the Windows world and a more complex version of the second tips Force Quit window.
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If one of the previous methods fails, this will almost certainly work. If all else fails, using the command line is a surefire way to force an app or process to quit by issuing the low-level kill command. Launch the Terminal and type one of the following commands:.
Aim kill at that process specifically:. The kill commands will take out just about anything, and sometimes have the side effect of not honoring Versions, Window Restore, and Auto-Save, so be cautious of potential data loss. Remember, when you force quit an app, you will lose any unsaved data in that application.
Enjoy this tip? Subscribe to the OSXDaily newsletter to get more of our great Apple tips, tricks, and important news delivered to your inbox! Enter your email address below:. Had NO idea about the first one adding shift to command-option-escape: Thankfully, I have had very few problems with stuck apps on iOS. Thank you for the information.
I used 5 — Activity monitor. Works well. Thank you. I finally got rid of it thanks to you and Activity Monitor. Thanks again. So I programmed one of the function keys using Keyboard Maestro.
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Now I can just hit one key and force quit an app. Sound familiar? My Macbook which I got I think in has started crashing.
I have force quit a couple of times after letting it rest an hour or so, but no change. Is there anything I can do or is it time to take it to a Mac repair? Is there any way to quit just the process that is causing the app to hang rather than force quitting the entire app? The 10 unsaved documents open right now would benefit from knowing the answer to this if indeed there is one. Parallels designed a tool set for macOS and PC users to efficiently manage their computer with just a few clicks—without any professional knowledge needed.
6 Ways to Force Quit Mac Applications
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