Close all running apps at one time in Windows 10?

Question

How to close all running/open apps at one time in Windows 10? I had tried some blog said open Task Manager > Select all Processes > End Task. However, wins10 now seems like not allowed to select multiple processes.

Answer 1

You can use the cmd but it is a little painful here's the explanation:

1 - run cmd as Administrator

2 - type the command tasklist and press Enter

3 - Now you can see all currently running programs.

4 - Now you need to use a command called TASKKILL and use the PID of every program to close.

Let's imagine if a program have PID = 21093

You'll need to use this command:

TASKKILL /PID 21093 /F

And this goes for all the PID's like this:

TASKKILL /PID 21093 1048 1592 1040 /F

PS: /F means forcibly terminate