Using the Quit menu

To quit an application or force it to quit:

To quit an application, choose it from the Quit menu.
On Mac OS X 10.7, to quit an application and close (or keep) its windows, hold the Command and Option keys and choose it from the Quit menu.

Windows are closed if Resume is enabled system-wide or for the chosen application. Windows are kept if Resume is disabled system-wide or for the chosen application. To disable Resume system-wide, deselect the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" option in the General pane of System Preferences.

Disabling or enabling window restoration for specific applications
To force an application to quit, hold the Option key and choose the application from the Quit menu.
To force an application to quit and automatically relaunch it, hold the Control key and choose the application.

Warning: By forcing an application to quit you lose any changes to documents open in the application.

Quit menu items are described below. To add or remove items from the Quit menu, open the Application Wizard pane in System Preferences and click Menus. Click the Customize Menus button and click Quit.

Running Applications

Choose an application to quit it. The active application is checked.

By default, running applications are sorted alphabetically. To list them from the most recent one to the oldest one, select the "Sort running applications chronologically" checkbox in the Quit pane of the Customize Menus dialog.

Quit Others

This command quits all the applications listed in the Quit menu except the active application.

Alternatively, you can quit all the applications listed in the Quit menu except one by holding the Command key and choosing the application you want to keep running.

Quit All

This command quits all the applications listed in the Quit menu.

Quit Excluded

This command quits all the applications you have excluded from the Quit menu.

Keeping applications always running

Groups

Groups let you quickly quit multiple applications at the same time.

To quit all the applications belonging to a group, choose Quit All from the group's submenu. If you select the "Choosable group menu items" checkbox in the Menus pane of the Application Wizard preferences, you can also quit all the applications belonging to a group by selecting the group menu item in the Quit menu.

Setting up groups

Excluded Applications

This submenu lets you quit applications you have excluded from the Quit menu.

Keeping applications always running

Background-only Applications

This submenu lets you quit background-only applications.

Using the Quit menu

To show the Quit menu:

To quit an application or force it to quit: