See my previous post for instructions. It is extremely easy.
You present a very typical problem: A user asks about how to do something, and other users start replying about using this or that third party tool. In most cases, like now in your case, it is totally unnecessary; Windows can do the most without any third party tools.
Read my previous post.
Kari
Option 3, step 4 says "4. If you like, you can Pin to Taskbar, Pin to Start, add to All apps, add to Quick Launch, assign a keyboard shortcut to, or move this shortcut to where you like for easy use."
Does that mean I can map to a particular keyboard key?
EDIT: Note To Self. Research first. lol. Think this is what I need to do for mapping the shortcut to a keyboard key: Assign Keyboard Shortcut to Shortcuts in Windows 10 | Tutorials
You geeks seem to read these threads selectively, not to learn how to do things but instead, see if you could argue the offered solutions.
Let's take a walkthrough.
Right click on desktop, select New > Shortcut. Paste the following command:
PowerShell -command "Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.MainWindowTitle -ne ''} | stop-process"
Name it as you prefer.
That's it. A new shortcut will be created, which when double clicked will close all open applications.
It must be my broken non-native English, otherwise I cannot understand how my clear instructions earlier in this thread cannot be understood.
Create Shortcut to App, File, Folder, Drive, or Website in Windows 10 | Tutorials
Kari
Last edited by Kari; 28 Nov 2018 at 00:04. Reason: Fixed some typos
Did that and it certainly worked. It closed 31 tabs in Chrome.lolYou geeks seem to read these threads selectively, not to learn how to do things but instead, see if you could argue the offered solutions.
Let's take a walkthrough.
Right click on desktop, select New > Shortcut. Paste the following command:
PowerShell -command "Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.MainWindowTitle -ne ''} | stop-process"
Name it as you prefer.
That's it. A new shortcut will be created, which when double clicked will close all open applications.
Kari
Could not map to the key with a square on it with 3 horizontal bars in it as it can't be mapped too. Letter keys & Number keys mean that I would have to use a 3 key combo. I found that using the / key on the standalone number pad works. It is a key I have never used and pressing just that one key, closes everything except the folder with photos in it, as I mentioned in post #36
Sounds like to need to set the Start Menu to Full Screen for this One-Key option to fully cover the screen display.
This is not a 3rd party option. It is pure native Windows, already built in with nothing more you need to create.
I noticed in one of your previous posts you did not want to see the Task Bar. An advantage to keeping the Task Bar visible, in your situation, is you can right-click any of the app/browser/explorer icons showing and close the app/browser/explorer window from there. Without opening them back up and showing the contents. May be handy for your purpose.
To set the Start Menu full screen (covers everything):
Last edited by f14tomcat; 28 Nov 2018 at 05:40.
PowerShell to close all Explorer windows:
(New-Object -ComObject shell.application).windows() | %{$_.quit()}
can be appended to Kari's command with a semicolon:
"Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.MainWindowTitle -ne ''} | stop-process; (New-Object -ComObject shell.application).windows() | %{$_.quit()}"
Keith
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