How to close a paint document without being prompted for unsaved changes?

Question

Is it possible to close the window of an unsaved document directly from here? the red X? The problem is sometimes I have several of these open and it's a pain to go in one by one to click "No don't save" all the time. I would like a short cut like holding down Shift or Control or anything and then click it, so it does a force to close without prompting for unsaved changes. Is this possible? Or did Microsoft forget to think about this feature?

Answer 1

Hi Harry,

Unfortunately this is currently not an option as far as I know, I've filed a feedback item to suggest this change here: https://aka.ms/AAw7h0l (feel free to upvote)

For the time being, an option to help with this would be to press Windows Key + R to open the run box and run the following command:

taskkill /F /IM mspaint.exe

This will close all open paint processes without prompt to save (be sure you don't need to save one before using)

Hope this helps,