{"id":983,"date":"2013-08-03T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T02:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/?p=983"},"modified":"2013-08-03T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T02:48:54","slug":"windows-8-closing-unwanted-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2013\/08\/windows-8-closing-unwanted-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8: Closing unwanted apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like on the iPhone and iPad, Windows 8 keeps apps open in memory once they are launched.<\/p>\n<p>Way back when using the Alt-F4 combination to close apps in Windows was the norm and it is still the case for most apps today, but apparently not all apps allow for this. However, the ones I have wanted to close have all worked so far.<\/p>\n<p>References: I did like this article on other methods of closing apps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geek.com\/chips\/geek-101-how-to-close-apps-in-windows-8-1529280\/\">http:\/\/www.geek.com\/chips\/geek-101-how-to-close-apps-in-windows-8-1529280\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like on the iPhone and iPad, Windows 8 keeps apps open in memory once they are launched. Way back when using the Alt-F4 combination to close apps in Windows was the norm and it is still the case for most apps today, but apparently not all apps allow for this. However, the ones I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}