SmartClose is a handy tool that allows you to close all currently running programs – a task often required during software installations to minimize conflicts (or during defrag operations).

This can be a tedious task when performed manually, and usually requires a restart to get all your programs back up and running. With SmartClose however, the entire process is simplified and automatic, as it stores the running program information in a system snapshot and not only closes all applications for you, but also restarts/restores them later. The program can be customized in various aspects, and a quick wizard also allows you to exclude programs from being closed or restored. It will automatically skip applications that are required for the Windows system to run. SmartClose also supports services, as well as Explorer and Internet Explorer windows and saves their current location, so they can be restored properly

“SmartClose is an easy-to-use software that automates the process of closing all running programs on your PC.”

Features:

• Two wizards:

  the Close Programs wizard, for closing all the programs, and the Restore wizard, to restore a system snapshot. Both provide an intuitive and clear interface, and assist you step by step.

• Thanks to its SmartClose-technology, most programs can be properly closed, so that the program can still save its settings and return memory and resources to the system.
• In the rare cases that a program can’t be properly closed, SmartClose can use SmartKill to kill the program. Still, all the memory and resources used by the program will be freed.
• If you don’t want a program to be closed or killed by SmartClose, you can add it to a list of ‘Protected Programs’.
• Besides closing programs, SmartClose also closes Explorer and Internet Explorer windows and saves their current location, so they can be restored properly later.
• Disables and restores the screen saver.
• On modern Windows versions, SmartClose stops and restarts Windows services that can interrupt other processes, such as the Task Scheduler. On Windows 9x/Millennium, the Task Scheduler can also be disabled and re-enabled.
• And finally, you get all of these features for free. SmartClose is 100% freeware without any nag screens, trial periods, ads, spyware etc.

Note:

On x64 (64-bit) versions of Windows, SmartClose will not be able to retrieve the command-line arguments or working directory of 64-bit processes, nor will it be able to kill these processes.

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OS Requirements:

Win 95/Win 98/Win Me/Win NT 4.0/

Win 2000/Win 2002/

Win Server 2008/

Win XP/Vista/

Win 7

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