How to close my program windows?

Hey
One thing I have noticed about apple computers is that you don't just X your programs out, you need to click the program up on the left and click "Close Safari" for example or they don't close correctly, or do they? Because when I just x out my programs / applications I don't know if my macbook closes them? I'm also wondering, if you could x them out, there wouldn't be no option to need to close them which apple computers offer, or by also pressing CMD (Command) plus Q. So I'm just wondering, is it enough by just x'ing or what's this deal about
Thanks in advance

Matthew Shamounnia wrote:
One thing I have noticed about apple computers is that you don't just X your programs out, you need to click the program up on the left and click "Close Safari" for example or they don't close correctly, or do they? Because when I just x out my programs / applications I don't know if my macbook closes them?
What you are running into is a basic difference between Macs and Windows. In Windows, every application is contained in an enclosing window with its own menu bar. Inside that are the document windows. When you click the X in the enclosing window, you X-out the entire application and it quits. You can also click X in document windows to close them without closing the entire application, but you can always be sure the clicking the X on the application window will always close the application.
In OS X the enclosing window is optional. This leads to a lot of confusion with new users because of the inconsistency in the user interface. In OS X, some apps use an enclosing window like iPhoto. If you mouse over the red button you see an X, if you click that it works like Windows where the program quits. But some applications like TextEdit do not have an enclosing window so if you click the red button/X you are only closing a window, and the application stays open.
In general, if it is a single-window application, clicking the red X button closes the entire program; if it is a multiple-window program you must use the Quit command instead. But this is still confusing because you may not have advance knowledge of whether an application is single or multiple window. The user experience on Windows is a bit more consistent in this area.
To keep things simple on the Mac, it's best to not try and figure out what kind of program it is, forget about whether you should be clicking this or that, and instead just use File/Quit or command-Q to close an app because that works every time.

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