A free Software utilities program for Windows

SmartClose is a good, free program only available for Windows, being part of the category Software utilities with subcategory Maintenance and has been published by BM-productions.

It’s available for users with the operating system Windows 98 and previous versions, and it is only available in English. Its current version is 1.1 and its last update on 12/21/2006.

Since we added this software to our catalog in 2006, it has obtained 22.087 installations, and last week it gained 56 downloads.

SmartClose is a relatively light software that doesn’t need as much storage than the average program in the category Software utilities. It’s a program very heavily used in Italy, United States, and United Kingdom.

Sometimes, you just have to close all currently running programs, such as before defragmenting or after installing certain software applications. You could manually exit each program one by one, or you could use SmartClose, that will automatically close every running program for you.

Furthermore, SmartClose can perform additional tasks, like disabling the screen saver and the Windows Task Scheduler, and saving the current state of the system, such as all running programs, to a ‘system snapshot’. This snapshot can be restored again later by SmartClose, so that all the programs closed by SmartClose will be restarted.

SmartClose features two wizards: the Close Programs wizard for closing all the programs, and the Restore wizard to restore a system snapshot. Both provide an intuitive and clear interface and assist you step by step.

Most programs are properly closed, so that they can still save its settings and return memory and resources to the system. If a program can’t be properly closed, SmartClose can use SmartKill to kill it. Also, if you don’t want a program to be closed or killed by SmartClose, you can add it to a list of ‘Protected Programs’.