Comments on: How-To: Quit All Open Applications in OS X

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:55:18 +0000

Thanks Josh your right. I created an automator app to quit all open apps. It was easy and I put a check mark so I can save any of them if I want to.
If you wanna quit all apps you can see how far you can throw the computer across the room ;-)

By: ndrewbowo

ndrewbowo — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:54:12 +0000

love this way... lol

By: Smite A. Hippie

Smite A. Hippie — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:16:13 +0000

Umm you've heard of Command-Shift-Q right?

By: Alex Layne

Alex Layne — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:10:02 +0000

Josh Wolrich's method will do that.

By: Clover

Clover — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:53:54 +0000

Is there a way to set this to close all except the application for current window?

By: Quit All Applications « Clark's Tech Blog

Quit All Applications « Clark's Tech Blog — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:18:45 +0000

[...] at the Applescript Blog there’s a nice little post on how to quit all running applications. I thought I’d put up the python equivalent. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:31:15 +0000

By: Alex Layne

Alex Layne — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:16:19 +0000

Disregard that; it's not going to be updated.

By: Alex Layne

Alex Layne — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:48:19 +0000

Still a pain.

By: Freddy Krueger

Freddy Krueger — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:41:05 +0000

come on you silly people, if you want to quit all applications just hold the power button for 10 seconds