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Luke101
Luke101

Reputation: 65248

How to close all windows

I would like to close all open windows. This will not minimize the windows but the script will close all windows even if it is minimized. Is there a way to do this in a batch program or powershell?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 31251

Answers (2)

And
And

Reputation: 75

Today I was looking for that too and then wrote an autoit minimal script, send 99 times Keys: Alt F4

  1. install autoit3 www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/downloads/

  2. short version: file "end.au3"

     $loop=99
 While $loop
   $loop=$loop-1
   Send("!{F4}")    ; // send Keyboard Alt + F4 = close Window in Windows
 WEnd

  3. run it in Autoit Editor with menu > tools > go or run it with F5

  4. long version: make, in same folder as "end.au3" , a "end.exe" file and put on deskt..

     #Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
 #AutoIt3Wrapper_Outfile=end.exe
 #EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****

 ToolTip('au3    close all    EXIT ', 0, 0)  ;// litle box top left

 $loop=99
 While $loop
   $loop=$loop-1
   Send("!{F4}")    ;// send Keyboard Alt + F4 = close Window in Windows
 WEnd

 Exit

Upvotes: 1

CB.
CB.

Reputation: 60908

use this in powershell:

Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.MainWindowTitle -ne ""} | stop-process

-note: this close powershell console or ise too and can't end his job!

(get-process | ? { $_.mainwindowtitle -ne "" -and $_.processname -ne "powershell" } )| stop-process

this way only powershell windows is still alive but the last command in your script can be

stop-process powershell

note: this no affect tray icon minimized process.

EDIT:

to close 'control panel' on xp try this:

(New-Object -comObject Shell.Application).Windows() | where-object {$_.LocationName -eq "Control Panel"} | foreach-object {$_.quit()}

to close all explorer.exe windows:

(New-Object -comObject Shell.Application).Windows() | foreach-object {$_.quit()}

Upvotes: 18

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