[SP2] Close all background apps/pages?

[Azul82]

I am new to the surface 2 and was wonderin if there was a way to close all apps or pages that are in background instead of 1 at a time? Metro version and not desktop?

 

[xandros9]

You don't have to worry about closing apps, unless one was misbehaving or so.

I guess the foolproof way though is restarting the tablet.

 

[Azul82]

Wouldn't having multiple things in the background slow down the tablet? Just curious.

 

[xandros9]

Intense things in the desktop will, but modern apps? Nope, Windows will manage those automatically.

 

[Cruncher04]

You can just use Powershell to kill processes. As many as you want (if you have permission to do so).
try something like:
ps | where { $_.name -match "regex" } | kill

"regex" needs to be replaced by your name filter as regular expression. Start Powershell as Administrator if you want to have this permission level.