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Why do Web, Contacts and Calendar not exit when I use 'Exit'?

16 February 2006 · by Steve Litchfield
Applications, Performance Series 80
Q. Why do Web, Contacts and Calendar not exit when I use 'Exit'? They seem to disappear but then when I look at my running programs in iDesk, they're still there. Not that it's a problem, but I'm worried about the amount of RAM being used unnecessarily.
A. These Symbian-written applications are considered core programs and 'Exit' is set to only send them to the background, to prevent the user from seeing them taking ages to load up each time they're needed. I wouldn't worry though - the 9300 and 9500 have plenty of RAM and you're extremely unlikely to ever run short!