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re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 5:38 am Posted by Kiwi (2228 messages posted) To exit current program or Applet: Alt + F4 ; and this time do hold the Alt key down while pressing the function key F4. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301583 . Kiwi ** On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 5:31 am, Paul wrote: >That's my current problem [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 6:31 am Posted by Paul (90 messages posted) Thanks. Also: where can I find a list of all programs that are running. I only ask as after one has closed a window presumably that program is still running. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 7:26 am Posted by Steve Dunn (925 messages posted) task manager (right click on taskbar or Ctrl+Alt+Del). If you close a program's window, and it was only instance, it shouldn't be still running. On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 6:31 am, Paul wrote: >Thanks. > >Also: where can I find a list of all programs that are running. >I only ask as after one has closed a window presumably that program is still running. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Everything was already on that list Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 7:28 am Posted by Kiwi (2228 messages posted) Look at that link. READ that link. It's there, and it's name is Task Manager, same as in all Windows since Win95. It did change by one key's worth. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301583 The last one on the list before the "Back to Top" linky, and the line that reads "Dialog Box Keyboard Shortcuts". I ask again, are you afflicted with vision problems, such that you do not see and read the screen without some sort of audio aids? . Kiwi ** On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 6:31 am, Paul wrote: >Thanks. > >Also: where can I find a list of all programs that are running. >I only ask as after one has closed a window presumably that program is still running. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 7:42 am Posted by Kiwi (2228 messages posted) The W9X Task Manager was less flexible and useful. It is accessed with Ctrl-Alt-Del. I tend to run Win98 for doing Internet activity; it's much less targeted, and easier to defend. So right now I can't compare the three, W98se, W2K, WxP. (I also have lost the SP2 CD, so currently XP is still fairly naked on the gaming PC I had to have it on.) (And Microsoft is being very stubborn about not answering how to pay the current $1.50 handling cost without a credit card. Don't say download it; that's 10-12 hours on dial-up, and interrupted long before ever going that long. No local broadband competition, so only dialup is affordable.) That's neither here nor there, but this is: I don't remember ever using Ctrl-Shift-Esc for anything in any MS product, but that's what Microsoft's own shortcut list says to use for Task Manager, and doesn't seem to mention the Ctrl-Alt-Del (I'll look again, slowly). Nope. That one's not anywhere in their list. Any forum readers want to opine why not? . Kiwi ** On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 7:26 am, Steve Dunn wrote: > >task manager (right click on taskbar or Ctrl+Alt+Del). > >If you close a program's window, and it was only instance, it shouldn't be still >running. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 9:17 am Posted by Steve Dunn (925 messages posted) kiwi - don't know what you're on about! Ctrl+Alt+Del in NT based systems has always brought up a menu - one of whose options is task manager. However (and I'm not sure exactly what is responsible) - if you have all service packs and patches installed, it now just brings up task manager (I did start researching why this happens, but as task manager has most of the options on the previous Ctrl+Alt+Del menu - just change password missing, and can do that elsewhere - haven't looked seriously). You can always get something like process explorer from www.sysinternals.com if you want an alternative view of processes. On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 7:42 am, Kiwi wrote: >The W9X Task Manager was less flexible and useful. It is accessed with Ctrl-Alt-Del. > I tend to run Win98 for doing Internet activity; it's much less targeted, and easier >to defend. So right now I can't compare the three, W98se, W2K, WxP. (I also have >lost the SP2 CD, so currently XP is still fairly naked on the gaming PC I had to >have it on.) > >(And Microsoft is being very stubborn about not answering how to pay the current >$1.50 handling cost without a credit card. Don't say download it; that's 10-12 hours >on dial-up, and interrupted long before ever going that long. No local broadband >competition, so only dialup is affordable.) > >That's neither here nor there, but this is: I don't remember ever using Ctrl-Shift-Esc >for anything in any MS product, but that's what Microsoft's own shortcut list says >to use for Task Manager, and doesn't seem to mention the Ctrl-Alt-Del (I'll look >again, slowly). Nope. That one's not anywhere in their list. > >Any forum readers want to opine why not? > > > > > > . > >Kiwi > >** > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? Monday, March 20, 2006 at 12:31 am Posted by ttterk (224 messages posted) SPACEBAR> brings up the window's restore/move/size/minimize/maximize/close menu, from whence you can do any/all of these functions. On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 5:31 am, Paul wrote: >That's my current problem [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: How does one close a window from the keyboard? Monday, March 20, 2006 at 12:37 am Posted by ttterk (224 messages posted) BTW -- check out www.chariot.net.au/~kday/keyboardtips.html to do anything that can be done with a mouse without a mouse 'cept eat cheese. On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 5:31 am, Paul wrote: >That's my current problem [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum