After you exit seemingly every program on the WM5, it stays in memory.

That's fine for programs I use all the time. NOT fine for programs I'm
gonna use once a year, or which I launch accidentally.

Is the only way to temporarily launch a program to exit, then go to
Settings and step thru the relatively numerous-ish steps to stop it?

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At 19 Jun 2006 13:04:20 -0700 baobob@my-deja.com wrote:

> Is the only way to temporarily launch a program to exit, then go to
> Settings and step thru the relatively numerous-ish steps to stop it?
>
No, install MagicButton!

Morten

Morten:

Thanks much for lightning fast reply.

I don't know what Magic Button is, but I'll sure as hell find out.

Thanks.

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baobob@my-deja.com wrote:
> Morten:
>
> Thanks much for lightning fast reply.
>
> I don't know what Magic Button is, but I'll sure as hell find out.

Google it, its a free app.

Also, bring up the keyboard and press CTRL + Q, in most apps that will
close it.

There are a number of "Task Managers" which allow you to both switch to
or (really) close apps.

I use VBar as it takes a minimalist approach plus it converts the "X"
from "minimize" to "close" It also allows you to selectively close
currently open apps or a single tap to close them all.

finally, almost all apps which do not have a menu "exit" option such as
the default ms apps, will close by tapping <ctrl-q>

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Thanks for add'l great replies.

It's great that Win keystrokes like Ctrl-Q have full-desktop
functionality.

I'll check into VBar too.

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Ihave downloaded VBar V2.2 and when I try to install on my T-Mobile MDA WM5
phone I receivee: VBar22 is not a valid Pocket PC application. I tried to
install other TMs with no success. Any suggestions?

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" wrote:

> There are a number of "Task Managers" which allow you to both switch to
> or (really) close apps.
>
> I use VBar as it takes a minimalist approach plus it converts the "X"
> from "minimize" to "close" It also allows you to selectively close
> currently open apps or a single tap to close them all.
>
> finally, almost all apps which do not have a menu "exit" option such as
> the default ms apps, will close by tapping <ctrl-q>
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>

http://BevHoward.com/bhhpj.htm#Cabs