Sep 04
This is one of the thing which bugs me in Apple Mac OS X . In windows i do closing of programs directly from the windows task bar at the bottom . When windows are grouped I even can close all the window groups at once from the right mouse click . There is no such feature in Mac OS X . Mac needs more than one click to do that close function for minimized program ( application ) window . And every minimized window needs individual treatment to close them . In Mac right clicking on the minimized application windows just shows one option to open that window . This single option is as good as maximize menu in windows right click on windows task bar. One of the several reason windows is better than Mac . 
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Use Option and hit the red-close button will help you a lot.
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Wendy . dont get you.. there is no way to close minimized window . It has to be maximized and then only we can see the red close button…
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Oh, option and hit the red-close button will close all opened windows (including the minimized one).
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@Wendy , I didn’t know that thanks… works well but its quite different than windows.
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Don’t forget that on a Mac you are only closing the windows the application is still running. Closing/Quitting applications is a separate operation. This is a good thing
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Well you don’t need to close apps in mac, unix tipe file system are much more ressources / memory efficient than in Wiindows. Just try it and let as many apps open as you want, you barely will notice some slow-down. So is better to allways have most used apps running in background so you don’t have to open / close all the time and be more productive
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@bibi . i have tried opening many applications and yes i have NOTICED slow-down even though i have 2GB of RAM. it may be memory efficient but i can say that opening too applications will slow down Mac
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