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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2005
David Switzer, Seattle, WA (US);
Huat Chye Lim, Seattle, WA (US);
Lisa A. Osse, Kirkland, WA (US);
William Mak, Seattle, WA (US);
Hyunsuk Kim, Sammamish, WA (US);
David Switzer, Seattle, WA (US);
Huat Chye Lim, Seattle, WA (US);
Lisa A. Osse, Kirkland, WA (US);
William Mak, Seattle, WA (US);
HyunSuk Kim, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user interface and scheme is provided for facilitating shutting down an operating system. Aspects include the operating system receiving a command to initiate shut down, and automatically terminating graphical user interface (GUI) applications that delay shut down which do not have top level windows. Also, aspects provide a user, through a graphical user interface, the ability to automatically terminate all running applications in response to determining that a running GUI application has a top level window.