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The best way to find your app in the Task Manager is to click on the Processes Tab. My favourite method is pressing Ctrl +Shift +Esc, alternatively type ‘Task Manager’ at the Metro-style UI. If you want to close a Windows 8 app and all else has failed, then launch Microsoft’s built-in Task Manager. The situation is this: your App / program does not have a ‘Close’ button, or that traditional red X in the top right of the window, and Alt +F4 brings no response. Close All Windows 8 Apps with Task Manager

They were formerly called Metro-Style Apps. Soma Somasegar of Microsoft says that "Windows Store Apps" would henceforth be the official term for the apps. If you are interested in troubleshooting, and creating network maps, then I recommend that you try NPM now.ĭownload a free trial of Solarwinds’ Network Performance Monitor Its also has the ability to monitor the health of individual VMware virtual machines. What I like best is the way NPM suggests solutions to network problems. This utility will also guide you through troubleshooting the dashboard will indicate whether the root cause is a broken link, faulty equipment or resource overload. SolarWinds’ Orion performance monitor will help you discover what’s happening on your network. Guy Recommends: A Free Trial of the Network Performance Monitor (NPM) v11.5 You have several options, firstly you can left-click and cycle through all open apps, alternatively, right-click and bring up the ‘Close’ menu. Now click with the mouse, or touch with a finger, at the very top left corner. For this experiment open two, or better still, three apps. Whether or not you want to close a Metro style app, it’s useful to explore the top left area of the screen. Close Windows 8 Apps with the Top Left Thumbnail Note: When you try the mouse drag remember to let go when you reach the bottom of the screen! The good news is that having closed the App you return to base: the New UI. Mouse Equivalent to the Touch Screen Swipe Think of it as tossing the App into an imaginary bin below at the lower edge.

If you have a tablet, or other device with a touch screen, then the knack of closing a Windows 8 App is to swipe downwards from the top edge to the bottom of the screen. The problem is that the new generation of Metro style apps don’t always respond to Alt +F4, and then there is the possibility that you don’t have a keyboard, just a touch screen. This is a foolproof method for those apps which are really native Microsoft programs, for instance, shortcuts you launch from the desktop.

The old Alt +F4 trick is still working, but for how long? Hold down the Alt key with your thumb as you reach up to function key 4 with your forefinger.