Close programs??

[bobbyb]

is there a registry hack that will close a program instead of minimising it?

[oink1]

Here you go! :) http://www.trancreative.com/mb.aspx and the best part is that it's free!!! :D

[PReDiToR]

There are many programs that will do this, some of them have many other functions that you will find useful.

My favourite program, WisBar Advance (http://lakeridgesoftware.com/products.php?prod=WisBar+Advance) does this as part of a massive set of functions, and adds the ability to completely skin your device.
The trade is that it uses heaps of valuable RAM and isn't free.

ViJay555 has a piece of software that will also perform this function, VJOKButt (http://www.vijay555.com/index.php?Releases:VJOkButt).

This is something that many people ask about, we all find our own solution.

[bobbyb]

cheers guys i'll try them out. does anyone know why microsoft did this?

[Chatbox]

cheers guys i'll try them out. does anyone know why microsoft did this?

So that applications will "seem" to start faster after the first initial load.

[PReDiToR]

The way MS sees us using the device often has little to do with the reality of using a PDA.

The default tools loaded by WM5 or the carriers (the ExtROM contents) are what they assume we will use and they do try to provide the things that most people want. Word, Phone, Calendar etc will all run quite happily in the memory that we have been (grieviously under)allocated on the device. However, when you start putting lots of third party apps in there you find that 64MB isn't enough. Skinning, Today plugins, TomTom, alternative BT stacks and voice diallers, better PIMs and the like all take up more space than MS had planned and we have to close them to save space.

If you ran it the way it was intended then minimising without closing would be acceptable.

Reminds me of Monty Python:

You're all individuals!
I'm not ...

One day I'll find a way to upgrade this baby to 512MB of DDR and drop a 2GHz CPU in it ... Then I'll be a happy camper =)

[BatMan01]

One problem I ran into, well, really not a problem just didnt think. As mentioned there are several programs that work great and I run SPB Pocket plus and all was great until my Exec started running slower & slower and eventually crashed. What I realized was that I was closing programs with the "ok" button on the keypad. This will only minimize not close so my programs were still running and stacking up in memory. This is a big "DUH". As long as you use the "x" in the top coner then the programs mentioned can close your program (as designed) but if you use the keypad "ok" the programs will continue to run in the background. Just a heads up.

[Kassad]

Unless you use PQz! This program has an option that lets the "ok" button on the keyboard actually close apps.

have I mentioned I'm a fan of PQz? ;-)

[BatMan01]

Thanks, I will check it out.