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Reader Challenge: 50 Ways To Close A Window

A while back I was using a spawn of Linux for some work-related task. I went to close a window — and failed miserably.  Having been raised in a strict Microsoft Windows household, I was momentarily displaced. Apparently my preferred window closing method, double-clicking the upper-left icon, wasn’t included in this particular distro.

It was then that I realized just how many freakin’ ways there were to close a Window’s window. So…

Reader Challenge: To my staggeringly few loyal readers, let’s come up with 50 ways to close a window in Windows (any/all versions). I’ll get us started with 10 easy ones.

1. Left-click the upper-right X.
2. Left-click the upper-left icon, click “Close” or “Exit”.
3. Right-click the upper-left icon, click “Close”.
4. Left-click “File”, click “Close” or “Exit”.
5. Double-click the upper-left icon.
6. Right-click the titlebar, click “Close”.
7. With the window active, hit ALT+F4.
8. Right-click the item in the taskbar, click “Close”.
9. Hit CTRL+ALT+DEL, choose item from “Applications”, click “End Task”.
10. Hit CTRL+ALT+DEL, choose “explorer.exe” from “Processes”, click “End Process”.

Post your methods in the comments and I will update this list as they come. And a million Sprocket Points to the most outside-the-box method.