Re:Don't kill my app
by toast0 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:23AM
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What's worse is when the task switching app and/or the home screen app have to be restarted. My phone only has 4 GB ram, cause it's nearly 3 years old and low cost, but still... I feel like windows 95 could run (poorly) on 4 MB and the start button and the task bar never swapped out. (Well explorer.exe did crash from time to time)
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I have to admit I haven't fact-checked this on my own but I have it on fairly good authority that several versions of Windows could swap themselves out, sometimes resulting in a bluescreen.
Windows has ALWAYS asked the user which processes to kill under memory stress, except in the most extreme of conditions (when it crashed).
Android and iPhones thought they'd look cooler if they didn't, resulting in a decade of endless frustration for many users.
Note that I was talking about writing processes to swap, not killing them!
Yes indeed, I'm pretty sure that explorer.exe can or could get swapped out. I don't think that can result in a bdod though
The start button and the task bar are part of explorer.exe, although if I'm not mistaken the File Explorer windows have always been run in a separate instance of explorer.exe .
I'm pretty sure that the task bar and start button could get swapped out btw, but they're quick to reload (except for the start menu and the tray icons)