# Overview of Task Manager

Task Manager enables you to manage running programs. Task Manager provides a Quick Menu on the Today screen that lets you stop running programs and quickly check memory usage. Task Manager also allows you to configure the Exit button ( ) to directly end running programs and not just hide their program screens.

Note: The Quick Menu may only be available in some devices.

To learn more about the Task Manager, click the links below:

Quick Menu on the Today screen

Customize Task Manager settings

# Quick Menu on the Today Screen

To open the Quick Menu, touch or tap on the top right corner of the Today screen.

Note: The Quick Menu may only be available in some devices.

You can do the following in the Quick Menu:

- Switch to a running program by touching or tapping that program in the Quick Menu.
- End a running program by touching or tapping .
- End all running programs (except Exclusive Programs) by touching or tapping the Stop All icon.
- Customize Task Manager settings by touching or tapping the Options icon.
- View the percentage of memory in use with the Memory indicator. Touch or tap this icon to view more information about memory usage.

You can use the NAVIGATION Control of your device to navigate the Quick Menu:

- Press Up/Down to move through the list of running programs.
- Press Left/Right to move through the horizontal icon bar.
- When a program is selected in the Quick Menu:
  - Press ENTER to bring up that program to the screen.
  - Press Right to end that program.
  - Press Left to close the Quick Menu.

Note: If your device has a QWERTY keyboard, the arrow keys and the ENTER key on the keyboard can also be used with the Quick Menu in the same way as the NAVIGATION Control.

You can also scroll the program list by sliding your thumb, finger or stylus across the Quick Menu:

- Slide up or down the Quick Menu to move up or down the program list. When you release your thumb, finger or stylus, the most recent selected program will be brought up to the screen.
- When the program list exceeds the size of the Quick Menu, touch and hold the Down arrow icon to continuously scroll down the program list. To continuously scroll up the program list, touch and hold the Up arrow icon.

#### See also

Overview of Task Manager

Customize Task Manager settings

# Customize Task Manager settings

To open the Task Manager screen:

- Touch or tap the Quick Menu icon () on the top right corner of the Today screen and then touch or tap the Options icon.
  Or,
- Tap > Settings > System tab > Task Manager.

Note: The Quick Menu may only be available in some devices.

Tap the tabs at the bottom of the Task Manager screen to view and modify settings. You will find the following tabs in Task Manager:

Running tab

Exclusive tab

Button tab

Others tab

To check storage, program, and storage card memory information , tap Menu > Memory. You can also activate and stop running programs and find large files that use storage memory to free up storage space.

#### See also

Overview of Task Manager

Quick Menu on the Today screen

# Running tab

This tab lists the currently running programs. When you tap and hold a program in the Running Programs List, a shortcut menu opens that provides the following options:

- Activate. Brings up the selected program.
- Add Exclusive. Adds a program to the Exclusive Programs List so that this program cannot be selected and ended while it is running.
  Note: Exclusive programs are displayed with a crossmark ().
- Remove from Exclusive. Removes a program from the Exclusive Programs List so that this program can be selected in the Running Programs List and ended. This menu item does not appear unless there are programs added to the Exclusive Programs List.

To end running programs, you can do one of the following:

- In the Running Programs List, select the check boxes of the programs that you want to stop running and then tap Stop Selected.
- Tap Stop Exclusive to close programs that you have added to the Exclusive Programs List.
  Note: Stop Exclusive may not be available in all devices.
- Tap Menu > Stop All but Selected to end all programs except for those whose check boxes are selected.
- To close all running programs (except the Exclusive Programs), tap Stop All.

Note: Tap Name to order the list of running programs alphabetically by name or tap Usage to order the list by how much memory the program uses.

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Exclusive tab

Button tab

Others tab

# Exclusive tab

If you added some running programs to the Exclusive Programs List, they cannot be ended in the Running Programs List. Exclusive programs will not appear in the Quick Menu on the Today Screen.

Note: The Quick Menu may only be available in some devices.

Select the check boxes of the programs you want to remove from the Exclusive Programs List and tap or touch Remove.

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Running tab

Button tab

Others tab

# Button tab

- Enable the "X" button to end running programs. When this check box is selected, you can set the Exit button () to directly end running programs.
  Choose the action for ending programs:
  - Tapping
  - Tapping and holding
  When the check box is not selected, tapping will only close a program screen. The program is not ended and continues to run in the background.
- Enable Quick Menu on the Today screen. When this check box is selected, the Quick Menu becomes accessible on the Today screen's title bar. See Quick Menu on the Today screen for details.

Note: The Quick Menu may only be available in some devices.

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Running tab

Exclusive tab

Others tab

# Others tab

In this tab, you can set the Quick Menu to sort running programs by order of Program name or Memory usage and you can set the size of the program icons in the Quick Menu.

Notes:

- The Quick Menu may only be available in some devices.
- Setting the program icon size is only available in some devices.

#### See also

Running tab

Exclusive tab

Button tab