SmartClose

Every time I play the Sims 2, I have to go through the same old steps of shutting down all the background processes, then starting up the game. Then, when I am finished, I have to restart my computer to get things running the way they were before I started playing. Seems like a lot of work just to play around with a few video game paper dolls, right?

Well, thanks to SmartClose, I now know I have a different option. SmartClose is a smart addition that should have been included with Windows in the first place. It allows you to close all currently running programs. Doing this the long way can seem like a lot of work.

SmartClose makes it simple and easy, though. With just a few clicks, you can go to no programs running and back to the way things were when all your programs were running. The program is very customizable and once you start learning how to tweak it, you will never know what you did without it.

From the SmartClose Web site, here are some other features of SmartClose:

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 - the latest Windows 2000/XP wizard style - 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 with this method.

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.

Stops and restarts Windows NT/2000/XP-services, such as the Task Scheduler, that can interrupt other processes. 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.

[629K] [Win98/ME/2k/XP] [FREE]

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