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Tip

If you have multiple monitors, you’ll see that Microsoft has done the right thing. Each screen
shows Task View miniatures for the apps currently on that screen, but the Timeline appears only
on the screen you were using when you invoked it.

Exiting Programs

When you exit, or quit, an application, the memory it was using is returned
to the Windows pot for use by other programs.

If you use a particular program several times a day, like a word processor or

a calendar, you’ll save time in the long run by keeping it open all day long.
(You can always minimize its window when you’re not using it.)

But if you’re done using a program for the day, exit it, especially if it’s a

memory-hungry one like, say, Photoshop. Do so using one of these
techniques:

Choose File → Exit.

Click the program window’s Close box, or double-click its

Control-menu spot (at the upper-left corner of the window).

Right-click the program’s taskbar button; from the shortcut
menu, choose Close or Close Group.

Press Alt+F4 to close the window you’re in. (If it’s a program that
disappears entirely when its last document window closes, then

you’re home.)

Point to the program’s taskbar button; when the thumbnail

preview pops up, click the little button in its upper-right corner.
(If the program had only one window open, then the program
exits.)

Press Alt+F and then select Exit.