Can't close apps with Windows 8.1 Preview

[ruiderson]

Someone else have the same annoying bug that Windows 8.1 Preview can't close any app with the swipe down mouse move? All apps that I try to close with this gesture, still opened in the Task Manager, and consuming lot of memory! Every time I have to select the app in task manager, and click "end task".

Using Windows 8.1 for about 1 hour or less, uses 80% of 2GB RAM, forcing me to logout, and the memory usage go down!

I had Windows 8 in my notebook since october, and this never happened before!

 

Hope to see a coming fix as fast as Microsoft can! :/

[Eric Veteran]

Yep. I've even gotten a warning that my computer was running low on memory.

[grayscale]

Can confirm this as well.

[Chris123NT]

Yeah I'm seeing this here as well, don't know why the processes are staying open.

[dr_crabman]

Looked in the task manager just now and indeed, everything is still there. Thankfully I have 16GB so I won't run into any problems but that's definitely not good.

[dr_crabman]

Okay, apparently it's not a bug. If you want to 100% kill an app by gesture you now have to hold it at the bottom for a while until it flips around. And if you then drag it back up it restarts.

 

@ruiderson: Did your system actually become slower?

[George P Global Moderator]

Okay, apparently it's not a bug. If you want to 100% kill an app by gesture you now have to hold it at the bottom for a while until it flips around. And if you then drag it back up it restarts.

 

@ruiderson: Did your system actually become slower?

 

You're right, I just tested this and it does work.  But at the same time, if you're using a kb+mouse, when you bring up the new task switcher and right click you get the option to close apps from the popup menu.  Doing so always closed apps in 8 but doesn't in 8.1.  So I think there could be a bug of sorts in there as well.

[NateB1]

The way Windows 8 is supposed to work is that the apps remain in memory until the memory is needed for something else.  Just because you're at 80% utilization does not mean it's a bad thing - it's only a bad thing if you try to open another app or do something and your computer slows down. 

 

The way the model works in 8.1 sounds ideal, if it works correctly - that way, apps give the appearance of launching instantaneously as long as the memory isn't fully utilized, and nothing else is slowed down.  Why have a bunch of empty RAM lying around and not utilize it for performance reasons?

[George P Global Moderator]

The way Windows 8 is supposed to work is that the apps remain in memory until the memory is needed for something else.  Just because you're at 80% utilization does not mean it's a bad thing - it's only a bad thing if you try to open another app or do something and your computer slows down. 

 

The way the model works in 8.1 sounds ideal, if it works correctly - that way, apps give the appearance of launching instantaneously as long as the memory isn't fully utilized, and nothing else is slowed down.  Why have a bunch of empty RAM lying around and not utilize it for performance reasons?

 

I agree, since I have 16GB I don't often close things but still, it'd be nice for something to actually close when you want it to for whatever reason.

[SierraSonic]

9 times out of 10, I prefer my apps to be opened anew rather than coming from a saved state.

[AsherGZ]

Never noticed any lags with 4GB of ram. Try this maybe?

[ruiderson]

Like dr_crabman said, the gesture has changed. Now it works fine, and auto close the app after a few seconds in the Task Manager too.

Now the RAM usage is the same that Windows 8 did!

Thanks to the help! :D

[HawkMan]

Don't use the task manager to see how much memory is used. 

It lists the total amount of ram an app/program has used. the majority of this memory is generally tagged as "available" as in other apps can overwrite it and use it themselves at any time.

 

so the task manager will even on high memory systems list 90% used, even if 90% is actually available. 

[McKay]

Ive done the normal closing methods and can see they do remain open in Task Manager, however they don't seem to be using much Memory. Does it add up over time because these figures are pretty consistent. 

 

[grayscale]

The way Windows 8 is supposed to work is that the apps remain in memory until the memory is needed for something else.  Just because you're at 80% utilization does not mean it's a bad thing - it's only a bad thing if you try to open another app or do something and your computer slows down. 

 

The way the model works in 8.1 sounds ideal, if it works correctly - that way, apps give the appearance of launching instantaneously as long as the memory isn't fully utilized, and nothing else is slowed down.  Why have a bunch of empty RAM lying around and not utilize it for performance reasons?

Well, if that's the case then I like the current implementation. The Alt-tab (or Ctrl+Alt+Tab) list gets cluttered so I always close the Metro apps. In 8.1, "closing" it removes it from this list but still resides in memory so if I choose to launch it, it will do so at an instant.

Alt+F4 still kills the app if you don't want the slight delay in doing the gesture.

[George P Global Moderator]

I think it's a nice option, it does give you more control over things this way and actually when you think about it in 8.1 the quick pull down motion is actually like minimizing it now when before it would close the app in 8.0.   So actually, with the change now it's kinda like how it's been on the desktop.  You can "minimize" or "close" metro apps this way.