Should programs stop when you close them?

[Nelviticus]

The manual for my PDA (ViewSonic V37) indicates that when you close an app it completely exits and shouldn't show up on the 'running programs' list. Is this correct? If so there's something wrong with my machine as pretty much everything - Word, Excel, notes, calendar, the lot - stays in this list and takes up memory when you close the app with the 'x'.

If this is what they're supposed to do it seems rather silly!

Nelviticus

 

[Glohamar]

That is a built in feature that Micrsoft thought that we needed. Here is a free app that will close a program when you click the 'X' button. It is skinable too.

http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/wisbar/

Dave

 

[Nelviticus]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Nelviticus

 

[Scruby]

Glohamar thanks for the cool website, When I go to the skins link on the website it shows on the today screen the weather and what looks like the task or calandar events on the screen. when I down loaded the program and the skins I cannot get it to look like this is there a manual or can you explane how I would set up my screen to look like the same as the skin IO XP 1.1?

thanks, Scruby

 

[Glohamar]

Scruby,

What you are seeing on that particular screen shot is another program called TodayPlus (I think). If you do a search for it, you will find where it is located. Last I heard, the programmer has left for awhile, but is back now. If you look at the one just to the right of that one, the weather is being displayed with a program call JournalBar located here

http://www.omegaone.com/PocketPC/JournalBar.html

The calendar and task infor is from a couple of program. One is a PIM replacement call PocketInformant

http://www.pocketinformant.com/p_pocketinformant.php

and the today screen is using a program called PIToday

http://jenett-online.de/PIToday/

Hope that helps. There are alot of neat Today Plug-ins out there.

Dave