Have you ever been chatting with a friend through an instant messaging client and s/he starts spamming you sporadically with swear words? You just want to shut her/him up right?
Or for the sex deprived teenagers...& married couples, have you ever been watching pornography on your desktop computer and your father/mother/spouse abruptly walks in? BUSTED!
In this post, I talk about the different ways to exit a page.
First of all, you have to identify the operating system on your computer. Windows, Mac or Linux
Hint: If you do not know which operating system you are using, you are probably using Windows or some distribution of Linux unknown to mankind. If you do not know what an operating system is or someone had to help you to get to this site or s/he gave you a link and said, "Click it! That's all you have to do." You are definitely using Windows. If you had to comfigure, takedown, reprogram and reconfgure your machine to reach this site, you are probably on a Linux distribution. The particular one, you have to find out. If your mouse or trackpad (the mouse thingy that sits on your laptop) has only one button, most times, that's a Mac.
Now we have figured out what operating system we are using, skim through the post. Every operating system has a section which is highlighted.
Windows
1. Ctrl+W. Hold down Control and press W. This closes the window.
2. Alt+F4. Hold down Alt and press F4. This quits the application.
3. Move the mouse pointer along the tab. Find the 'X' and CLICK IT!
4. On the top right corner of the window, weighing 3.14 pounds, we have...the Red X. CLICK IT!
5. On the Menu bar, choose File->Quit (0r File->Close).
5. On the Taskbar, right-click on the window reference and choose close.
Linux
Now the techniques in this section apply to all distributions of linux.
1. Ctrl+W. Hold down Control and press W. This closes the window.
2. Ctrl+F4. Hold down Control and press F4. This quits the application.
3. Open the Terminal (Command Line Interface), type "killall {application name}". Where {application name} is to be replaced with the application name you want to quit.
4. On the Menu bar, choose File->Quit (or File->Close).
5. Ctrl+Alt+{Direction}. Hold the Control button, Alt and press any key on the direction pad. This does not close any page or application but it quickly switches desk-spaces.
Mac
"With one button, how can this machine perform many functions?"
1. Command+W. Hold Command and press W. This closes the window.
2. Command+Q. Hold Command and press Q. This quits the application.
3. Alt+Command+Esc. Hold alt (option) and Command and press Escape. This opens the Force Quit option. You then select the application you cant to quit.
4. Command+{Direction}. Hold the Command button and press any direction button on the direction pad. This does not close any page or application but it quickly switches desk-spaces using Éxpose.
5. On the top left corner, click the red circle.
Now for the ultimate technique for closing annoying pages.
- locate your power button,
- place your finger on it,
- look away,
- push down,
- wait for about 5-6 seconds,
- lift your finger,
- look back at your computer,
- remove your finger from the location of your power button.
