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• Activate App without Windowname
• Active Window Height and Width in Pixels
• Capturing info from Scrolling Screen
• Center Window Without Resizing
• Change Position of Message and Display Box
• Close all active Windows
• Close all windows of a particular application type
• Detecting Owner or Parent Window
• Distinguish between Two Windows with Same Name
• Explanation of Child Windows
• Figure out parent and child windows
• Figure out when an Untitled Window has Closed
• Find Windows Location on Remote Win95 Machine
• Get Active Child Window
• Get Array of Window Ids With Matching Title
• Get Process ID for Unknown Window Title
• Get the Size of the Active Window
• Get Unknown Windowname
• GetWorkArea Window Resize
• How to get a previously active window
• Hwnd to WinID Function Conversions
• Keep a Window On Top
• Loop Forever until a Window Appears
• Make Message non active window
• Minimize All Windows
• Obtain the Window Class Name
• Probe Windows Code
• Process depending upon Multiple Windows
• Reading Buttons and Child Windows
• Recognize when a Windows Close Box has Ungrayed
• Use WinGetActive to Get Active Window
• WinClose Question
• Window Information EXE Fails to Launch
• Window placement on multi monitor screen
• WinExist and WinWaitClose Problems
• WinIDGet to Handle Changing Window Name
• WinItemize and Dont Show System Hidden Windows
• WinItemize Return Order
• WinPlace on High Resolution Monitor
• WinPlaceGet and WinPlaceSet Negative Values Issue

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How to close all Windows

Keywords:     winclose close all windows

Question:

Answer:

debug(1)
;give the exact title of the application here..
myexacttitle="WinBatch Studio - [C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\WinBatch scripts\minimizeall.wbt]"
;gets list of all windows
list=WinItemize()
;gets the number of windows found
count=ItemCount(list,@tab)
   for xx=1 to count
	   ;extracts out the first windowname
           thiswin=ItemExtract(xx,list,@tab)
           ;this requires an exact title because we are comparing strings
           like=strcmp(myexacttitle,thiswin)
           if like==0 then continue;if strings are the same.. continue
	   ;Important to keep the following line because
	   ;it will not shut down any services or hidden processes
           if WinState(thiswin)==@HIDDEN then continue
      ;Important to keep the following line because
      ;it will not attempt to close windows that don't exist.
           if WinState(thiswin)==@FALSE then continue
           WinClose(thiswin)
   next

Article ID:   W13362

Filename:   Close all active Windows.txt

File Created: 2001:06:28:10:59:18

Last Updated: 2001:06:28:10:59:18