The *real* answer is to simply use XP's built-in function of grouping alike
taskbar items together. You need to set it to group any alike taskbar
items above "2".
Then, no matter how many instances of Notepad are open, you can just
dismiss the lot by going to the single taskbar item with a right-click >
"Close Group"
I know you can employ "taskbar grouping" in the "Taskbar Appearance"
section of the "Taskbar" tab of that "Control Panel".
But you need also to set the number to any greater than "2" setting the
reg-value :
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"TaskbarGroupSize"=dword:00000002
But this can be done with the TweakUI.exe utility for WinXP
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe
==
Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
"JD" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Your solution doesn't solve the original posters problem. dstdst12 wanted
> to close multiple Notepads, not save their contents. Your solution is
> exactly the opposite of what was requested?
>
> Try replying to posts made in the last month or so and stop wasting our
> time replying to posts from 2007.
>
> Jared Sohn wrote:
>> I know this thread is old but am responding in case anyone discovers
>> this page in a search because they have the same problem.
>>
>> I would experience this problem a lot so I wrote a small program
>> called Notepad Consolidator which will copy the contents of all
>> untitled notepads and write the content to an automatically-named
>> file.
>>
>> Get it here:
>>
>> https://github.com/jaredsohn/NotepadConsolidator
>>
>>
>> It is open source, too.
>>
>>
>> Jared
>>
>>> On Friday, March 02, 2007 4:45 AM dstdst12 wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there
>>>
>>> Quick question regarding notepad. I am using Windows XP.
>>>
>>> I often need to open a lot of notepad (e.g. 25 notepads) for
>>> temporary keeping text, but I do not need to save all these.
>>>
>>> Everytime I want to close the whole group (e.g. whole 25
>>> notepads), this message keep coming up (for 25 times !!!)
>>>
>>> "The text in the Untitled file has changed. Do you want to save
>>> changes? Yes/No/Cancel"
>>>
>>>
>>> Question: 1) How can I close the whole group (e.g. whole 25
>>> notepads) without answering 25 times "No" ??
>>>
>>> 2) Any quicker way to close whole group without saving?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>>
>>>> On Friday, March 02, 2007 5:17 AM BruceM wrote:
>>
>>>> eerm.......... boot the comp again?
>>
>>
>>>>> On Friday, March 02, 2007 5:25 AM RajKohl wrote:
>>
>>>>> Unfortunatelly, there is no "No To All" button in Windows XP.
>>>>>
>>>>> You are talking about closing the Whole Group that means you
>>>>> are using the "Group Similar Taskbar Button" function of
>>>>> Taskbar Properties. Which means that Windows XP shows you only
>>>>> one taskbar button for all of your 25 Notepad items and you are
>>>>> closing them through "Close Group" by right-clicking the
>>>>> Taskbar button and choosing Close Group.
>>>>>
>>>>> If that is the case then the quickest way could be holding down
>>>>> the N key to say "No To All" instead of clicking No for each
>>>>> dialog box.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the basic and is for our safety that Windows will
>>>>> always prompt us for Save or No before closing the document.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I think there is a good news. I was going to close this
>>>>> post right here but suddenly I decide to make a Google search
>>>>> on "script for closing an application" and I found a command
>>>>> that will kill a running process and it works! The command is:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Open some Notepad windows with unsaved files. 2. Click Start
>>>>> - Run - copy and paste the follwing command and press Ok.
>>>>>
>>>>> taskkill.exe /f /im notepad.exe
>>>>>
>>>>> This command will close Notepad.exe [or you can specify any
>>>>> application] without asking you for Save.
>>>>>
>>>>> But the problem is: you have to copy and paste this each time,
>>>>> which will take a longer time. So you can create a shortcut of
>>>>> this command on your desktop.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Right-click on your Desktop, point to New - Shortcut 2. type
>>>>> the command: taskkill.exe /f /im notepad.exe 3. Click Next and
>>>>> Give a name like "Kill Notepad".
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, whenever you have unsaved 25 Notepad files open, just
>>>>> press Winkey+D to minimize all of them and then double-click on
>>>>> the Kill Notepad shortcut.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this help, let us know!
>>>>>
>>>>> "(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>> On Friday, March 02, 2007 10:34 AM lvee wrote:
>>
>>>>>> You could open task manager hold the ctrl key while
>>>>>> selecting all instances of notepad and end notepad by
>>>>>> selecting end task.
>>
>>
>>>>>>> On Friday, March 02, 2007 1:20 PM Poprivet wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is a program called notepad.exe which makes it easy
>>>>>>> to do that, plus to reopen sets of files if you wish to.
>>>>>>> It's simple and easy to use. I use it for making the same
>>>>>>> changes to multiple files all at once and similar things.
>>>>>>> It has both a Close All and a Save All feature; no
>>>>>>> individual acks needed to use it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/B...tepad_exe.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> About half way down the page; it's free.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pop`
>>
>>
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>>>>>>>
> JD..
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