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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1499106" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Welcome to Mac-Forums</p><p></p><p>You've not only found the right forum, but also the right sub-forum to help you through your Mac adventure and we are glad to be of as much or as little help with your questions..</p><p></p><p>The little light, dash or whatever you wanna call it under each of the application icon in your Dock indicates a running program. In Windows, to close a program, you hit the X button in the top bar. In Mac OS, hitting the X (usually) just closes the window while leaving the application running. To quit the application you have to either hit CMD+q or click on the application name on the top menubar when it's active and choose Quit.</p><p></p><p>Yes, technically, having an application run without showing any windows is taking up resources and could potentially slow your computer down..so it's generally a good habit to get into CMD+q'ing an application if you're done with it..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1499106, member: 110816"] Welcome to Mac-Forums You've not only found the right forum, but also the right sub-forum to help you through your Mac adventure and we are glad to be of as much or as little help with your questions.. The little light, dash or whatever you wanna call it under each of the application icon in your Dock indicates a running program. In Windows, to close a program, you hit the X button in the top bar. In Mac OS, hitting the X (usually) just closes the window while leaving the application running. To quit the application you have to either hit CMD+q or click on the application name on the top menubar when it's active and choose Quit. Yes, technically, having an application run without showing any windows is taking up resources and could potentially slow your computer down..so it's generally a good habit to get into CMD+q'ing an application if you're done with it.. [/QUOTE]
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