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Yeah! Thank you very much j-b and everyone else who has helped solving that issue!

VLC now exits completely on X-ing it and and I can't see any noticeable delay when using CTRL+Q. On my Athlon X2 4400+, 1.1.5 exits instantly just like prior versions.

Hats off to you all!

Hm, I just stumbled upon something that might possibly be helpful to fix this issue: As I said two posts above I have the same closing issue as many others. But now I noticed that if the VLC Window doesn't have the focus, closing it using the X-button completely terminates the program as expected. S...

I also have this problem since version 1.1.0, and even with the latest version 1.1.2. Using Win XP 32 SP3. I start a fresh install of VLC and close it using the X-button. The Tray Icon always stays visible and has to be clicked to shutdown the process. When the tray icon is disabled, I have to use t...