Normally, if you want to close all of the open apps on your Mac, you’d have to either quit them all one by one or restart, shut down, or log out while making sure to deselect “Reopen windows when logging back in.” The latter option is great, but it doesn’t always work in Mac OS X, and what if you don’t want to restart, shut down, or log out?
Now, using Automator, you can create an application in just a few seconds that can be placed on your dock and clicked on just once to shut down all other open apps in just a few seconds.
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Step 1: Open Automator
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Sig Nordal 