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Softpedia Editor's Review for SmartClose
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Can close all running programs, disable the screensaver and halt all other processes that can interrupt without asking
Written by Bogdan Popa on December 6th, 2011
We all agree that's very, very frustrating to deal with installers that ask us to close all the running programs, but SmartClose comes to solve all these problems.
The application could come in very handy to all users who wish to close all programs automatically and open them back once the annoying installer we were talking about comes to an end.
First of all, SmartClose is not only capable of closing all running apps, disabling screensavers or halting Windows services, but it can also take what's being called a snapshot of the current state of the system.
When the installer or whatever asked you to close all the programs ends, you can safely use the previously taken snapshot to restart all applications, enable the screensaver or load Windows services, bringing the computer in the exact state it was before using SmartClose.
It may sound a bit complicated, but it's not. The whole app uses a wizard-like interface, so the first window will prompt you to choose between creating a system snapshot and closing all programs, restoring a previously taken system snapshot and viewing or changing settings.
If you wish to create a new snapshot, you can choose from up to five tasks, as it follows: close or kill or programs, close all Explorer windows, disable the screensaver, stop Windows services and create a system snapshot file for a later restore.
Of course, you can also choose some of the processes you wish to prevent from closing by setting up a list of protected programs, so you're on the safe side all the time.
You can either save the system snapshot to the default location or to a custom file, using either the standard name or a user defined one.
Although it doesn't come with a dedicated help menu, SmartClose shows detailed explanations in every single step, which means you will know exactly what you're doing before every single click.
The application works impressively smooth and runs low on computer resources, so older machines will get along with it quite easy.
As a conclusion, SmartClose is a keeper, that's for sure. Not to mention that it's entirely free...
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SmartClose description
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Here are some key 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, 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.
· 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.
· On modern Windows versions, SmartClose stops and restarts Windows services that can interrupt other processes, such as the Task Scheduler. On Windows 9x/Millennium, the Task Scheduler can also be disabled and re-enabled.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed: in some cases, SmartClose didn't save the closed/killed programs to the system snapshot.
· Fixed: after running the Close Programs wizard more than once in the same SmartClose instance, the closed/killed programs and stopped services didn't get saved to the system snapshot correctly anymore.
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 | | Softpedia guarantees that SmartClose 1.3 is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors. [read more >] |
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