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Originally Posted by i360
This is correct.
This is why I run RAM Sweeper periodically throughout the day. And also use Task Manager to close programs that are not being used or won't use for awhile. This helps improve battery life to have programs and tasks completely closed and out of memory...
It's an old habit since I'm a PC Gamer and always look for performance overall.
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I've never been convinced of this argument that programs sitting in memory, but not consuming CPU cycles, deplete battery life significantly or even at all.
Anyone care to give a detailed argument from a programming/engineering perspective to actually back this up? Because I think it's crap. Seems to be an old habit carried over from the WM2003 days with little evidence. I also hope for the sake of the OS it is not true because that is just awful to make the consumer manger their devices---the exact opposite reasoning give by Microsoft for having apps minimize and not close.
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So, on realizing that users shouldn’t have to manage their memory, we set about doing it for them. We made our shell watch how much memory was being used and close apps when more was needed. We made many of our apps remember their state when they were closed so that they could reload it again when they were opened (so users couldn’t really tell that they had ever been shut down). We taught ISVs how to do the same thing. And we removed the close box from all of our apps.
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Windows Mobile Team Blog
It's a sad state that WinMo users feel they have to waste time managing their memory throughout the day. This is the opposite of "smartphone" and I think it is misguided.