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Originally Posted by keiffer
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I remember how WIN98 would run out of resource memory(64K) and you were screwed till you shut some programs down. Adding more RAM wouldn't help. This sounds like a similar situation.
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WM2003 is basically the same with the exception that it will shut the programs down for you.
How it decides which to shut down I've no idea but it will shut them down.
This is why Microsoft thought there was no need to include a true "Close" function for each individual application.
Their thinking was that you should never need to "close" a program because when the resources get low, the OS will close them for you.
WisBar, MagicButton, SmallMenu, PocketPlus, and about a zillion other app managers can all show you what apps are running and offer to shut them down (you can also do this from the built-in "Memory" Control Panel applet).
Other programs like MemMaid and SKTools will shut down both apps AND processes.