Although I can open more than one app at a time, is there a way of seeing which apps are open - as in a task bar like on a pc or laptop.. cheers
EFMax said:
Although I can open more than one app at a time, is there a way of seeing which apps are open - as in a task bar like on a pc or laptop.. cheers
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Search for QuickMenu, Task Manager, etc.. Mort Buttons is also a nice launcher than will list running programs, etc.
Please search next time.
Thank you.. its not from a lack or an inability to search but more a question of asking the search engine the right question, something humans are able to respond to in a much more friendly and precise sort of way.. cheers.
You'll see quite a bit if you search for "task manager" or "wm6 task manager". My personal favorite is WkTask.
Try Task Facade or Task Manager.
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I know it's out there, but I can't find it anymore.
What's the name of a task manager that puts icons in the system tray for each running app, and giving access to them by a simple click on them?
Tia!
Oke, I just found "True Toolbar" from ValkSoft.
It's pretty much what i was looking for.
But, are there any others?
grtz.
Heimiko said:
Oke, I just found "True Toolbar" from ValkSoft.
It's pretty much what i was looking for.
But, are there any others?
grtz.
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anyone...?
Read the whole tread. Best task Manager ever!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=330855
sort of similar would be O2 Plus which has a tray icon that you can select by scrolling down with the dpad. Once you have highlighted and selected a quick menu will pop up diplaying all the programs allow you to select one to open, or close, or the option to close all. I think this program is very useful. Compared to many other TM's its like Total Commander vs Resco. They both are very similar but one is very large while the other is small.
A programm, that puts apps on the desktop is this:
TrayLaunch.... please rename it to TrayLaunch.exe and copy it into Windows/StartMenu/Programs....no need to install.
The paths to the programs must be like this example
Add: \Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Office Mobile\Word Mobile.lnk
Look for Distances between words...sometimes programs are called OfficeMobile or otherwise Office Mobile and always at the end .lnk (Link), because in the StartMenu are always Links, not .exe
If you want the taskmanager with this feature, you must go to www.lakeridgesoftware.com Wisbar Advance 3 has this function. But it´s not free.
Good Luck.
As above. I've had a quick search and a bit of a google but I can't see anything. The ideal thing would be a plugin that displays a simple list of tasks on the desktop, with or without close buttons.
Thanks
http://www.elecont.com/
"Elecont Pocket PC and Smartphone Manager"
says
"Windows-like taskbar on Home and Today screen"
http://www.google.dk/search?source=...askmanager+pocketpc&btnG=Google-søgning&meta=
this was the search that gave the result if you want to find more
u can try QuickMenu it replaces the old start menu and shows processes that are running (you can close them also).
Thanks for the replies!
I downloaded and tried the Elecont program but I didn't like it visually! The others found in google were the ones I'd previously passed over - I couldn't see any good Today plugins.
Had a look at quickmenu too but it duplicates a lot of the features I've already got with SPB Pocket Plus. I'm after a simple, at-a-glance plug in rather than a menu.
Cheers anyway.
I would suggest you check out ValkSoft's True Toolbar.
http://www.valksoft.com/TrueToolbar.html
It gives you a toolbar at the bottom of your screen much like windows on a pc. You can hold on any of the icons for a context menu which includes a close option. It is an application I use on my WM5 device every day.
wkTask
It's not a Today plugin but it makes a proper taskbar that can switch tasks and close them, even force terminate. It also has a launcher, volume/brightness control, and battery meter. Very customizable. And best of all it's free.
Thanks guys, DevState 1.5 (WM5 version) does the job.
I'd seen it before but didn't realise it was so configurable - I've set it so that it shows large icons for each task along with a memory summary. Clicking on the memory summary now launches Advanced Task Manager.
is there anything for this? thanks in advance
You should have a CAB file for every app (or apps combination) you want to hide, so that if we have thousands of apps and thousands of people, the CAB collection should be infinite.
I suppose there's a "task manager configurator" which allows to create a list of files, but this is also in some other task managers, so that you must go into "settings" "system" and search if you have any way to do that.
If not, the best way is surfing the registry and adding the app to the list.
Knowing what kind of task manager you have, you'll know which is the way to create this list.
i dont think i correctly explained what im looking for. for example, i have an accelorometer app that(when its running) allows any program im using switch to portraight or landscape in relation to the way im holding my phone. im looking for something that when i click the task manager(top right corner of the home screen) that program wont show so in final, i wouldnt be able to "x" it out
joeyc1123 said:
i dont think i correctly explained what im looking for. for example, i have an accelorometer app that(when its running) allows any program im using switch to portraight or landscape in relation to the way im holding my phone. im looking for something that when i click the task manager(top right corner of the home screen) that program wont show so in final, i wouldnt be able to "x" it out
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Just add the exclusive with taskmanager will take just as long to install a .cab "Taskmanager-Middle Button-tap & hold on the prog add exclusive"
The location for exceptions is:
Code:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\TaskManager\ExclusiveList\System]
[B]eg[/B] "repllog.exe"=dword:00000000
joeyc1123 said:
i dont think i correctly explained what im looking for. for example, i have an accelorometer app that(when its running) allows any program im using switch to portraight or landscape in relation to the way im holding my phone. im looking for something that when i click the task manager(top right corner of the home screen) that program wont show so in final, i wouldnt be able to "x" it out
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Yes, you're searching an app.cab "dedicated" to your accelerometer app !
Are you clicking the Task manager (top right) ?? Or the X button ? And what kind of X button ? If you're using some kind of X-button, you can go to settings-system-TaskManager and add your accelerometer to the ignored apps list. If you use another task manager, maybe you can't or you're finding this config page on another place.
In the most of cases, you'll be able to add your app's name into the registry so that the task manager won't show it as listed.
On the other side, if you "X" it out, and "x" is configured to "hide" but not to "close" (or you can play with short/long taps) then you'll have it.
Just surf a few asking for "task Manager" or "X button" and you'll find lots of literature here,
im using the stock htc task manager and when i click and hold on the "exclusives" box, nothing happens. thats whats messing me up. my setting is "tap and hold" to close programs.
joeyc1123 said:
im using the stock htc task manager and when i click and hold on the "exclusives" box, nothing happens. thats whats messing me up. my setting is "tap and hold" to close programs.
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To add a program to the exclusive list. it needs to be running and then it will show up in that list and you check the check box next to it to exclude it.
dwizzy130
thanks, i forgot to have it running
Hi, I've installed Duttys Task Manager, but it doesn't appear in the start menu, or in "Tools", but it does appear when I look to uninstall it from Start>Settings>Application>Manage application>Remove
I've tried several times with and without soft reset, but it's always the same.
It doesn't appear in File Explorer on the HD2, or Explorer on my desktop machine either (Vista Ultimate, 32 bit).
I'm also running these programs:
Two Peaks Billrate
eWallet
Gyrator2
Mobireader
Start Menu Grid 4
SPB Time3 (Demo)
TCPMP_netDrg V2
? Duttys Task Manager?
The end result I'm trying to achieve is to stop Gyrator2 exiting when I end all tasks from the task manager. I understand that Duttys Task Manager will let me do this.
Any ideas or alternative suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help.
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Hi, I've installed Duttys Task Manager, but it doesn't appear in the start menu, or in "Tools", but it does appear when I look to uninstall it from Start>Settings>Application>Manage application>Remove
I've tried several times with and without soft reset, but it's always the same.
It doesn't appear in File Explorer on the HD2, or Explorer on my desktop machine either (Vista Ultimate, 32 bit).
I'm also running these programs:
Two Peaks Billrate
eWallet
Gyrator2
Mobireader
Start Menu Grid 4
SPB Time3 (Demo)
TCPMP_netDrg V2
? Duttys Task Manager?
The end result I'm trying to achieve is to stop Gyrator2 exiting when I end all tasks from the task manager. I understand that Duttys Task Manager will let me do this.
Any ideas or alternative suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help.
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Hi. I think you cannot choose what programmes remain running with the task manager(Duttys)unless you close each app individually(leaving Gyrator running)
Hi, thanks for your reply. This is what I'm doing at the moment - closing each app individually - but I thought I'd read somewhere on the forum that Dutty's had an exclusion list. Maybe I'm wrong, in which case I won't bother with Dutty's at the moment. It's not that big a deal, but I only find out that Gyrator's not running when I need it. Cheers.
Hello again. I think you could use another task manager called showacase or showcase. That app has a config option.I'm not at home at the moment but i thnk i have it. once i get home,ill upload it for you.
Use the Touch X Task Manager. You can find it here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=584415
It gives you a task manager available from Sense (top-right corner). If you go into settings (click the wrench icon) then you can select any running app and add it to the exclusions list.
Hope this helps
Thanks rumz82 and johncmolyneux. I HAVE got Dutty's Task Manager after all. Like the Touch X Task Manager it creates a drop-down menu in the top right corner where several options are offered. I must be blind 'cos I didn't notice it! I haven't tried the options yet because I didn't want to waste any more of anyone's time. I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks again.
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Thanks rumz82 and johncmolyneux. I HAVE got Dutty's Task Manager after all. Like the Touch X Task Manager it creates a drop-down menu in the top right corner where several options are offered. I must be blind 'cos I didn't notice it! I haven't tried the options yet because I didn't want to waste any more of anyone's time. I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks again.
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Heh - glad you found it okay. And I'm sorry mate, but LOL!!
I also like the word "mamager" thread title. It sounds like something for keeping boobs in order
Hum, yes, I see what you mean!
I'm not a very good typist, and sometimes a bit dyslexic. I usually rely on the spell-checker where I've put in all my usual mistakes for auto-correction. Another reason is that I usually work on my computer with an A4 pad in front of the keyboard for taking notes, and this doesn't give me a very good typing position. When I remove it I'm a lot more accurate, but I need it when I'm in problem-solving mode. Cheers.
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Hum, yes, I see what you mean!
I'm not a very good typist, and sometimes a bit dyslexic. I usually rely on the spell-checker where I've put in all my usual mistakes for auto-correction. Another reason is that I usually work on my computer with an A4 pad in front of the keyboard for taking notes, and this doesn't give me a very good typing position. When I remove it I'm a lot more accurate, but I need it when I'm in problem-solving mode. Cheers.
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I'm just having a bit of fun at your expense mate I'm terrible for going back and re-editting stuff that I typed previously. I'm just a real pedant, so I notice EVERYTHING! lol
No problem - I'm just as bad. I like good English and am a bit like you in that respect. I used to teach english as a foreign language, and I do like good grammar and spelling. I suppose I should be more tolerant but the quality of some of the posts really niggles me, and I'm talking about the posts by people where English is their first language!
Anyway, I've had a play with Dutty's Task MaNager, and it does what I need, but thanks for your help anyway. I wouldn't have noticed the drop-down menu without your post.
I've noticed your credit in the work with Co0kie.HomeTab_v1.6.1. I've read the posts and I'm very interested in getting more quicklinks on my home page, and more appointments too. Am I correct in thinking that I can do this without editing the registry? I've got confused. Are you the right person to ask?
Thanks again.
John North said:
No problem - I'm just as bad. I like good English and am a bit like you in that respect. I used to teach english as a foreign language, and I do like good grammar and spelling. I suppose I should be more tolerant but the quality of some of the posts really niggles me, and I'm talking about the posts by people where English is their first language!
Anyway, I've had a play with Dutty's Task MaNager, and it does what I need, but thanks for your help anyway. I wouldn't have noticed the drop-down menu without your post.
I've noticed your credit in the work with Co0kie.HomeTab_v1.6.1. I've read the posts and I'm very interested in getting more quicklinks on my home page, and more appointments too. Am I correct in thinking that I can do this without editing the registry? I've got confused. Are you the right person to ask?
Thanks again.
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First of all, I'm glad you got your original issue sorted, and I'm happy to help
Secondly, Co0kie's Home Tab will modify the Sense Home Tab so that you can have multiple pages of quicklinks, ranging from 3x3 to 5x5. All the settings are registry entries, and that's where I came into the story. I made the CHTEditor which gives you the ability to change all the settings that Co0kieMonster made available to us, but via a GUI.
The GUI is unfortunatly a bit lacking in some respects (you have to click some things two or three times before they work; certain things are difficult to change etc.), but that will be resolved in the next version. The current version does work, and obviously makes it a lot easier to set up Co0kie's most excellent mod.
Have fun playing with your new home tab. It made my phone easily twice as useful!
Had the same issue. For me Duttys Task Manager just didnt show up in the right corner after installation.
But it showed up after the installation of another app.
For me i also felt that my battery drain was faster with the task manager AND after bootup it takes way longer until Sense is fully reacting on my input with it installed.
So i uninstalled it and now im using the Task Manager that comes with the HD2.
I have a shortcut in the Co0kies Home Tab to it and everytime im finished with an app i open the task manager and close all running apps. Simple but good
Thanks dameon12 - maybe I wasn't so blind after all! I'm not away from my charger for very long at the moment so I'm not able to comment on the battery life. I installed Dutty's Task Manager to stop Gyrator closing so that my screen will always change from portrait to landscape for applications where a wider screen is more useful - in my case, spreadsheets.
I'm experimenting in using my phone to send information I collect in my work back to base so I don't have to carry a laptop with me. I'm designing the spreadsheets to fit the screen in landscape mode.
Thanks also for the info about Co0kie's Home Tab. I'm going to experiment with that in a few days time when I've got a bit more time.
Cheers.
Today I've done some searching on the best means of getting apps to close when you press the X button on them instead of minimising and have found loads of threads on the subject but I'm really plainly doing something badly wrong I think.
The most common answer seems to be to use Dutty's task manager and in the past that was fine, but running 6.5.3 roms I can't because of how it clashes with stuff on the task bar.
So, the other options include apps like:
Touch X Task Manager
X2 Taskmanager
Arkswitch
AE Button Plus
Schap's advanced task manager
etc
The first two on the list after installing (and rebooting) didn't appear to be anywhere as I could not find an icon/shortcut anywhere to run them once installed!
Arkswitch and AE button I can't suss out how to get the close button to be set up properly, and schaps I can't even see a setting for it etc.
General point I'm making here is that I can't find an easy way to make this work despite trying a bunch of task managers and so on.
I'm sure this is just a case of me being thick and not seeing a setting that's right in front of me but I'd be grateful if someone could clarify for instance how I can do this. Apologies that this is a question already asked a lot on here but I'm embarrassed to admit that without using Dutty's, this is getting the better of me!
Cheers!
You could use TaskFacade and LMT to launch it. It does work quite well and looks pretty good, but as I'm using a stock ROM Dutty's is just faster and easier.
edit: I know this isn't exactly what you were looking for (with the 'X' and all that), but it's a quick way to access a task manager to close the apps.
Ignore me - I didn't read the question properly and answered something else
Thanks for the reply Jamie (and sort of John ).
Not quite what I'm after sorry.
An example is QuickMenu - a great app and it has a setting to choose the long/short press of the X button on screen in terms of closing/minimising apps that are running but it just doesn't seem to work, and whatever variation I try is the same.
You can try showacase task manager....
Cheers mate. I have actually tried 3 versions of that (the latest 3) and none of them will install. Must be something to do with the rom I'm using I guess.
So I'm still trying to solve this one....
how are you doing on your search? i am looking for a taskmanager that will give me that icon in the top right to see all running programs.. do you know what i mean?
if anyone can help me with that ( and i think its good for the op too )
I use Ameba which is cooked into the Valykrie Firestorm ROMs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583002
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I use Ameba which is cooked into the Valykrie Firestorm ROMs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583002
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Ameba is a must have for me in every rom I flash
Only just seen these two posts - thanks guys.
I'm trying Ameba at the moment, and so far it appears to be doing EXACTLY what I want.
I've opened and closed a bunch of apps now, and in task manager there is no sign of them afterwards.
Many thanks!