Shutting down applications

[Guest jeffcooper]

This is going to sound really stupid, but here goes - when you start an application such as File Manager, or anything else for that matter, they very rarely have an exit function - you can leave the program by pressing pretty much any one of the phone keys - but if you check with the task manager, you'll find it's still running in the background - how on earth do you quit applications so that they do actually exit ?? :oops:

[Guest jeffcooper]

Further to that - it appears that the red put phone key down does end applications on the C500, but not with Win M5 on the C600 - Bizarre, unless I'm being even stupider than I thought :shock:

[Guest chucky.egg]

Windows Mobile is designed not to close apps, it is (supposedly) intelligent enough to manage the open apps and close as needed if something else wants the memory. From what I've heard WM5 isnt as good at it as WM2003, but I cant really tell much difference.

In practice you'll find that lots of non-"Designed for Windows Mobile" software has a proper close function (one of the rules of the "Designed..." thing is that it doesn't close, apparently)

I'd strongly recommend xBar, which is great as a Task Switcher and also allows you to quickly close apps when ever you want.

[Guest abhayseth]

Use the task manager - to kill the apps or u could also use the X-bar app to kill applications...!

This is going to sound really stupid, but here goes - when you start an application such as File Manager, or anything else for that matter, they very rarely have an exit function - you can leave the program by pressing pretty much any one of the phone keys - but if you check with the task manager, you'll find it's still running in the background - how on earth do you quit applications so that they do actually exit ?? :oops:

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[Guest mini_man]

Another cool idea that I thought would be very useful is to assign a task manager app to the home key or something similar.

I opened gpcarreon website (master of the remapping :) )

opened this link

http://www.gpcarreon.com/?p=210#more-210

and remapped it too a task switcher.

In my case i purchased Vito Task Changer

http://www.vitotechnology.com/en/products/taskswitcher.html

Its great as it is really small and incredibly useful!!

Take a look