{"id":639,"date":"2012-04-19T19:33:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T19:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2012-04-19T19:33:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T19:33:57","slug":"how-to-delete-your-application-history-in-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete Your Application History in Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image118.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"656\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you close a Metro application in Windows 8, its more like it  gets paused, rather than completely closes. This allows us to quickly  switch between applications (think \u201cresume\u201d) without having to launch  the application from scratch. Here\u2019s how we can delete our Metro  application history as well as exit any applications running in the  background.<\/p>\n<h3>Deleting Your Application History<\/h3>\n<p>Press the Windows + I key combination, when the sidebar appears go ahead and click on the \u201cMore PC Settings\u201d section.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the new \u201cMetro Control Panel\u201d loads you\u2019re going to want to head over to the General Section.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the right-hand side, a simple click of the Delete button in the App switching section will do the trick.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image123.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you take a closer look at Task manager you will also notice that  it closes any 3rd Party Metro applications that were running in the  background.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image124.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it also removes them from the application switching list, as promised.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image125.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you close a Metro application in Windows 8, its more like it gets paused, rather than completely closes. This allows us to quickly switch between applications (think \u201cresume\u201d) without having to launch the application from scratch. Here\u2019s how we can delete our Metro application history as well as exit any applications running in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-win_8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}