I came across a cool way to quickly close an application. It's even built in to WinXP. It's called taskkill. This little program can kill a running application by way of a batch file. Here's the scenario I wanted it for.... I wanted the ability to close Firefox quickly while I have multiple tabs open and have the option to restore those tabs the next time I opened up Firefox. With taskkill that's very simple.... create a batch file that contains the following:
@echo off
TASKKILL /F /IM "firefox.exe"
Then save it as a batch file. Double click the batch file and voila Firefox closes automatically without a prompt to close multiple tabs and the next time you open Firefox you have the option to reload the tabs from the last session.
Even faster.... setup a keyword in Keybreeze or Launchy so that you only have to enter the first couple letters of the batch file name to run it.
More detailed information can be found here:
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=297
@echo off
TASKKILL /F /IM "firefox.exe"
Then save it as a batch file. Double click the batch file and voila Firefox closes automatically without a prompt to close multiple tabs and the next time you open Firefox you have the option to reload the tabs from the last session.
Even faster.... setup a keyword in Keybreeze or Launchy so that you only have to enter the first couple letters of the batch file name to run it.
More detailed information can be found here:
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=297
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