{"id":46959,"date":"2024-02-18T17:25:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46959"},"modified":"2024-02-18T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:25:44","slug":"home-computer-use-how-to-close-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-how-to-close-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Home computer use: how to close Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about computer problem solving: the tutor mentions a trick.<\/h2>\n<p>\nMy computer security suite complained that, to update Teams, I had to close it. I would have said it wasn&#8217;t open. Yet, I restarted the computer, thinking that would certainly close any programs I didn&#8217;t know were open. I re-opened the security suite to receive the same complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\nI found Teams in the thumbnails, opened it, then closed it. That didn&#8217;t seem to work either.<\/p>\n<p>\nI opened the Task Manager to discover that, indeed, two instances of Teams were running. Next, I went online: &#8220;how to close Microsoft Teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nI was pleasantly surprised: apparently, to close Teams, one right-clicks the Teams icon in the taskbar, then a &#8220;close&#8221;, or &#8220;quit&#8221; option (or some such thing) will appear in a list. (I think mine said &#8220;quit.&#8221;) Clicking that, for me, closed Teams so that my security suite could update it.<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not sure I like the fact that Teams seems to run in the background unless one takes specific action to quit it, but perhaps that&#8217;s an issue for another post.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=how+to+close+microsoft+teams&#038;oq=how+to+&#038;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgYIARBFGDkyBggCEEUYOzINCAMQABiRAhiABBiKBTINCAQQABiRAhiABBiKBTINCAUQABiRAhiABBiKBTINCAYQABiRAhiABBiKBTIGCAcQRRg9MgYICBBFGDzSAQgxMzM4ajBqMagCALACAA&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8#ip=1\">Google search: how to close microsoft teams<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about computer problem solving: the tutor mentions a trick. My computer security suite complained that, to update Teams, I had to close it. I would have said it wasn&#8217;t open. Yet, I restarted the computer, thinking that would certainly &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-how-to-close-teams\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home computer use: how to close Teams<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-computer-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46959"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46966,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46959\/revisions\/46966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}