10.7: Quit and temporarily stop window restore

Jul 26, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: xplora

if you are choosing to use the window restore feature also known as Lion's Resume feature, here's how to override this feature at the time of quitting the app.

Hold the option key while pressing Command+Q, or selecting the Quit from the application's namesake menu, and all the open windows will be discarded. In the application menu the Quit menu item will change to Quit and Discard Windows.

I was reading the hint about the Library in the Go menu, when I got curious to see what other menus change when holding down the Option key, and this is what I found.

[crarko adds: This is a handy one to know.]

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