- [Instructor] When you're finished using
an application or program, you should quit it.
I'm starting here with three applications open.
I have the web browser, Microsoft Edge,
I have the Maps application, and I have File Explorer.
And I want you to see when an application is running,
it will appear in the taskbar
and it will have a line under the icon.
That tells me the application is running.
Now, in most cases, you can click the X button
near the top right corner of a window
and it will close that window,
which also quits the application.
So let's do that with File Explorer.
I'll click that X, the window closes,
and the line is no longer under the icon in the taskbar,
so I know that application is no longer running.
Now, the icon is still here
because it is one of the shortcuts
that I have pinned to the taskbar,
making it easy to launch later.
We'll see how to choose which shortcuts
stay here permanently in another video.
Okay, so here's another way to quit an application.
Of course, I have the Maps application open here.
It's pretty obvious because I can see the window.
So I could just click the X button to close it.
But you can have an application running
even if the window is not visible on the screen.
For example, what if I minimize this window
by clicking this button here?
That application is still running.
The line is still under the icon in the taskbar.
So in this case, a quick way to quit the application
is to just right-click on the icon in the taskbar
and choose Close All Windows,
and that will quit the application.
Now, in this case, the Maps icon is gone from the taskbar
because it was not one of the applications
that I had pinned to stay in the taskbar.
I could always go to the Start menu
to launch that one again in the future.
Okay, so I've got one more application running here,
Microsoft Edge.
And before I quit this one,
I want to show you something important.
I'm going to go to the Menu button,
the one with three dots here in this window,
and I'm going to choose an option to make a new window.
I want you to see that many applications
will let you have more than one window open at a time.
Maybe you need to see two webpages at a time.
But with multiple windows, if you click the X
in the top right corner of one of the windows,
it just closes that one window.
There's still another window open here,
so the application did not quit.
But you'll see, if I do close the last remaining window
for an application, it will quit.
I know that Edge is not running
because it does not have that line
under the icon in the taskbar.
So those are your standard options
for quitting applications.
For our last thing, I want to open something again,
so I'm just going to launch Microsoft Edge.
And this is a rare scenario,
but sometimes, an application will freeze or lock up.
It will stop responding and you will not be able to
close the window or quit the application.
It's unusual, but if that happens,
you can right-click on the Start button,
then go to Task Manager.
And the Task Manager shows a list of every application
that is currently running.
You can select the one that is frozen,
then click the End Task button
to force that application to quit
if it will not quit normally.
And then, of course, you can click the X
to close the Task Manager.
If you do not quit applications when you're finished,
your screen will get very cluttered
and your computer may slow down.
But as you saw here, it's very easy to quit applications
when you're finished using them.