you mean closing a metro style app (dragging from to bottom) in 9364 just remove it from app switcher and do not Completely close an app ?
Yes, I've noticed that too, you can still see the apps running in the task manager and when you run the app again, it will load immediately and you can pick up where you left off.
Actually I close apps to free resources. So this is another strike against using metro apps for me now.
From what I remember from the Building Windows 8 Blog, I think that the apps get suspended, so they use no/minimal resources. I think so.
If you recall that was changed when people made it very clear they wanted a way to fully close metro apps. Not just leave them hiding in memory using resources. Granted PC's are coming out with increasing amounts of RAM, but that RAM is supposed to be beneficial to the user in being able to run more intensive applications, not for the OS to gobble it all for the hell of it.
Ah, I sure hope that if they want to keep the way closing metro apps works in 9364 they bring suspended apps back, or they just let them close like in Windows 8.
Obviously there were and will always be some smart people that know memoray management in Windows better than those who designed it (just want to mention the custom tweaks of the page file size or all those RAM booster programs that claimed Windows did not know when to release resources). Now it's the same again with this mechanism. I don't care if 95% of my memory is occupied with programs that I've closed. When I start a program I want it to open quickly and caching closed apps in memory is a nice feature that contributes to this goal. And I trust the engineers that they checked at least once that this feature makes the OS in total faster and not slower. Suspended apps are still there.
Yes. Not only does it free up resources but I don't want to clutter by Task Manager or Alt-Tab with apps I don't need which are suspended in the background. I prefer a clean Alt-Tab list.
Build 9364 has some new key value pairs in the ProductPolicy registry key, I think these weren't there before. Code: SecureStartupFeature-Enabled-DeviceEncryption SecureStartupFeature-Enabled-DeviceEncryption-BlockRevert Security-SPP-IACountedIdList Security-SPP-Reserved-IAAuthenticationKey Security-SPP-Reserved-IAAuthenticationKeyTest twinui-CanSuppressStartScreen Hints at some device encryption feature, new mechanisms in sppsvc (in 9200 there is a KmsCountedIdList but nothing with IA prefix), and finally an option for the user to skip start screen?
can anyone who's on windows blue, try out any google chrome or firefox metro and tell me you can't save files from websites?
Why programs show that windows uses version 6.2 of the kernel ? I installed PAE patch. Is he the reason ?