

So NMF, I have your same problem, and a workaround I found is to choose Force Quit menu (cmd+opt+esc), select all the apps using shift key, quit all at same time and restart.
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I use to keep many, many applications running too because I have power for this, and sometimes have to tell my mac to restart about 3 times until get things done. so the classical message "this applications canceled restart, quit it and try again".

Well, sometimes you just say "restart", go to bath, and when you come back you want to see your clean and restarted mac, but its impossible, when you come back, you have a message saying "hey, you forgot this application too!" So you have to stay in front of your mac sometimes for minutes, and wait for all the apps one by one to quit, and keep answering "don't save", "ok, close this app too", "oh yeah, why mail won't quit?". It would be much faster if all apps receive the command to quit at the same time, so the fast applications closes first. So if you have a stuck app, all the other apps have to wait until it quits to receive the command to quit too. If you choose restart, its because you are sure that there's nothing important running, or if you have, at least you have a choice to ignore it.Īnother bad thing about this, is that Restart function quit apps one and then another. Why do you have to tell every single app, all the time you need a fast restart, things like "yes, ok, quit my app", even safari "you sure you wanna quit? you have many tabs" an so on. Click the Force a Process to Quit ( X) button in the top left corner. Select the hovering process from the list. Note: Wait for 20 seconds, and then turn. Click the Apple menu, and then click Shut Down. Hey, I really miss this feature in mac too. Follow these steps to force quit apps using Activity Monitor: Open Activity Monitor from Launchpad. Learn how you can restart and close all programs on a Mac computer.
