quit zoom work place on close window

Forum|Forum|5 months ago
August 5, 2025
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Zoom does not follow normal Windows conventions, when you select the X in the upper right corner of the program it does not close (exit) the program, it just reduces it to the back ground. This is the function of the - button just over from the X button. I realize that some user want to keep zoom running at all times and it is a benefit to those users, but there are also users that do not benefit from this behavior. I know I can right click on the icon in the task bar or tray and select exit, but why should I have to do that. It is Windows convention that the - button reduces the program and the X key closes (exits) the program. This is virus like activity by zoom.

Please get with the program and give us an option in the settings so uses can choose this action of they want it, even make it the default action. Let those that do not want it the ability to have Zoom act like a normal Windows program.

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storyhub

Community Super Champion | Customer

Having written numerous Windows applications since 1982, technically, the "X" in Windows is the window CLOSE button (if you hover over this button it says "close") NOT the application EXIT button. The programmer CAN add a function to exit the application when that "close" button is activated for a specific window, but that function is NOT a standard. In the case of Zoom closing the secondary window is not the application exit it just "close"es the window. Application exit requires signing out. Signing out then returns to the main window where the "close" button will exit the application.

Even in Adobe applications closing a secondary window does not exit the application.

For further discussion of programming standards try the Developers Forum at https://devforum.zoom.us/

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Bob-SAuthor

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I see your point, but let talk reality. I have been in the computer support business for over 3 decades, closer to 4. Zoom is the exception not the rule. Word, Excel, NotePad, Calculator, Adobe Reader, Discord, Chrome, Firefox, CorelDraw, I could go on and on and on and they all "exit" the application when you use the close function. The industry standard is you close and exit with the X button in the upper tight corner of the application. Just to be clear I am talking about the Windows platform. I am very hard pressed to think of an application that does not function this way. Discord does and does not, there is a check box so you can choose to have it exit or not.

Thinking about it I do have one that works this way, one and only one that I can think of Green Shot a screen capture and editing tool. It reduces to the system tray and does not exit. This is an exception and I believe most people want it running so they can easily take screen captures.

The point of this ramble is you are correct exit and close are not the same thing, but the standard is the "close" button, that X in the upper right is actually an Exit button at the application level.

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Generation_Zoom

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There used to be an option like Settings → General → “When closing window, minimize to notification area instead of task bar” but it's not there anymore

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