Many Cygwin (mintty) windows - How to close all?

[Arun Biyani]

Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>> Is there some sort of Cygwin command that -
>>> 1. Closes all Mintty windows
>>> 2. Unloads services - such as cron
>>> 3. Exits X server
>>>
>>> in short, gets rid of all Cygwin processes so I can update & restart
>>> without having to do all this myself.
>>>
>> I use the attached script (run it elevated on Vista and above) before
>> updating with setup. This is only tested on Vista.
> 
> Doing a 'kill -9 -1' works for me in terms of getting rid of all my
> mintty windows at once.  I'm not sure if it will kill services and
> exit the X server as well.
> 
> Chris
> 
Thanks for the suggestions.
Arun

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