Program to show how many programs are running

06-09-05, 10:33 PM

According to the monocube (Safe Mode for PPC) website, it states that "Microsoft limited the number of simultaneous running applications to 32". Well, how do I know how many programs are actually running? Do all the Today plug-ins count? All the icon that are at the bottom of the screen count?

Is there an easy way to check or better yet a program that could display how many are running?

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.

Any of you gurus have any enlightenment on this issue?

Thanks.

Keith

Gigi · 06-09-05, 10:34 PM

Check by going to Start - Settings - System - Memory - Running Programs (tab). Today plugins are not included in this list though. If you want a complete list of running processes, you will have to use something like MemMaid.

06-10-05, 12:45 AM

I did look at the "Programs Running". It only showed one. I don't have MemMaid, but looked to see what applications I have that might do the same thing. I have SKTools and it will show what processes are running. It showed 19 running.

I guess I have a ways to go to get to the 32 applications limit.

Thanks.

Keith

06-10-05, 12:52 AM

Wisbar advance 2 also has this- in the task area, with the option to close running apps.

gjw · 06-10-05, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by keiffer

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.

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.