Android App: Close Everything 2

One of the strengths of the Android OS is its ability to run apps in the background. However, this can also be a weakness because sometimes you can feel the OS bogging down after you have been using it a while. It’s supposed to automatically shut processes down as needed, but it doesn’t always do a great job. That’s where the task manager app Close Everything 2 comes in. This app will basically shut down any processes and services that you don’t want running any more. To use, just click the icon to launch it.

You’ll then be presented with a list of running apps. From here, you can choose to close everything in the list, or you can tap an individual app to close it, or select multiple apps to close using the checkboxes. One really nice thing about Close Everything 2 is that you can choose to exclude certain services from being closed. Just long-press on a service in the list to set it as excluded. It’s a good idea to exclude things like weather widgets, otherwise their auto-refresh will be disabled.

Finally, there is a Close Everything 2 widget that you can put on your desktop. It indicates the number of apps running in the background (that aren’t on the exclusion list) and you can just tap the icon to shut down the background processes. Whenever I feel that my phone is running a little sluggishly, I just tap the widget and voila, my phone is running at top speed again!

Close Everything 2 at AndroLib