Closing all applications with one keystroke

Hi
There must be a trick but it has been 3 weeks I had my Imac and still have not found it
How can I CLOSE ALL running application with one keystroke ? also how can I close the finder ... its always running and I am not sure it should.
Up to know I love the Imac and wander how I survived on a pc for 20 years.
Antoine

The Finder is necessary to allow you to navigate your computer: it always runs and if you force-quit it it will immediately relaunch.
Even if you shut down your computer normally any application with unsaved work will ask for a confirmation. You should not force a shutdown: you can damage your disk Directory by doing this and doing it repeatedly could run you into serious problems. You should only do this in the rare even that the computer locks up completely.
It's possible to write an AppleScript which will quit all applications (though you will still be asked for confimation where applicable) but it gets a bit complicated because there are running processes which you don't want to quit, and as you're new to all this I'm reluctant to recommend this as a way to go. Otherwise there is no global method.

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