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| Thread ID: 110407 | 2010-06-15 23:14:00 | Close means Close | GordonBennet (13808) | Press F1 |
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| 1110539 | 2010-06-22 23:11:00 | There's no problem with closing the program by right-clicking on its icon in the system tray. But I don't want an extra step. To clarify: I'm looking for a utility or registry hack (or whatever) that will allow me to change the behaviour of a given program when close is requested - i.e. to make Close really mean Close and not minimize to system tray. |
GordonBennet (13808) | ||
| 1110540 | 2010-06-23 01:06:00 | by any chance are the programs that youre trying to close ones such as FrostWire and uTorrent? | GreacherTech (15784) | ||
| 1110541 | 2010-06-23 01:13:00 | There's no problem with closing the program by right-clicking on its icon in the system tray. But I don't want an extra step. To clarify: I'm looking for a utility or registry hack (or whatever) that will allow me to change the behaviour of a given program when close is requested - i.e. to make Close really mean Close and not minimize to system tray. How about reading post #6 and supplying the info asked for. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 1110542 | 2010-06-23 01:16:00 | Gordon, as Sweep and myself have said, you need to tell us which applications are causing you the problem. Each application behaves differently, there is no way to get a 'cover all' registry hack that will shut down each and every program when you click the red X, it just doesn't work that way. Now let us know which programs you are having trouble with, and we'll see if we can help you! :rolleyes: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1110543 | 2010-06-23 02:30:00 | just hold the power button in for 8 or 9 seconds - that'll do it all in one step for you! | bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1110544 | 2010-06-24 13:42:00 | You could experiment and see if Alt+F4 kills the app. In the meantime, there are still plenty of people here who assume the X means the app must close, and are wrong to assume that. Example: Zone Alarm will not close from the X (it merely minimizes to the task-bar), and must be closed from a Right-Click on the task bar icon. Programatically, the X could be configured to do the same as the OK button, just as No or Cancel can actually be programmed to do the same as OK (this is my malware paranoia talking now, but it is a mistake to always assume No, Cancel, Quit and X will actually give you the result that you assume!) Forcing a closure from Task Manager is a solution, but risks corrupting the app . Yes but the difference is that programs such as Comodo and ZoneAlarm are meant to be run continuously and in the background. Thus the minimizing behaviour with X. Almost all other programs will close rather than minimize. |
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