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Have way to many windows open that you want to close all at once? Well, just use this key to quickly close out of all up and running programs and browser windows. Useful for playing games at work. ;>)
(?) USB foot switch
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/prog_fs.htm
[kbecker, Oct 04 2004]
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Also a button to quickly close the window you're currently looking at. |
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How about two?
ALT + F4
or three...
ALT + SPACE, C
ALT + F, X sometime ALT + F, C |
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How about the button labeled "POWER" or in some cases "1/0"? |
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The power button turns off the computer and then you have to reboot, not to mention it's bad for the computer, this would just close all open windows. |
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The title reminded me of "climb every mountain, ford every stream". Have you tried [silverstormer]'s advice? |
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How about nine? CTRL+ALT+DEL, ALT+T, shift+down-arrow (hold), ALT+E. |
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I'm not sure you want the possibility of doing this accidentally though, which making it too easy would risk. And there's the problem that shutting all the windows on a PC can take a few seconds. Better to set your wallpaper to look like an Excel spreadsheet and hit WINDOWS+D. |
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It should be a button that you can activate discreetly so your boss doesn't see you wipe your mouse frantically across the screen or your hand across the keyboard. It should be programmable to call up the document that you are supposed to work on. See link for USB footswitch. |
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This is why I like my Mac so much. |
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Why, does it come with an USB footswitch? |
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Unless a dialog box has locked that menu out, the system has a running-programs menu with a 'Close All' option. |
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[Ctrl]W - try that one right now. Bye! |
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What's wrong with "Show Desktop," the little taskbar icon that minimizes all your windows? |
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The problem with Show Desktop is that it still leaves your windows taskbar thing packed with the evidence of lots of applications with incriminating names like "Freecell" "Hot Chimp Porn", etc, unless of course you set the task bar to auto-hide mode, which would be suspicious in itself. |
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[supercat] I wish my computer had a division-by-zero button |
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The button/switch that used to be labeled "1/0" (now it's a "0" with a raised "1" overlapping it) turns off the electric current to the CPU. This will do a pretty good job of stopping any and all programs running on a modern PC. |
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This is available for some smartphones now, as a downloadable
application. I have an icon on my screen that looks like a huge red
X. If I tap the X, it pulls up a list of all applications running in the
background. With one more tap, I can close them all. You don't
want a single tap = close everything because you might accidentally
hit it in the middle of something important. If it requires a
confirmation click, like closing most programs, you've got a winner. |
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