Program Retained In Memory When Shut Down

[Edward W. Thompson]

I use Power Desk in place of Windows Explorer as file manager and am finding
that it does not always shut down correctly when closed.

I am finding multiple entries of PDExplo.exe (the program executable) in
Task Manager. These multiple entries sometimes causes the machine act in
'unexpected' ways. I can remove these entries by using 'End Process'.

Is there any known reason why this particular program does not always clear
itself from memory when closed and is there anything I can do to ensure it
does shut down 'correctly'?

This 'problem' is not related to WINXP SP2 as it also occurred in SP1.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I use Power Desk in place of Windows Explorer as file manager and am finding
that it does not always shut down correctly when closed.

I am finding multiple entries of PDExplo.exe (the program executable) in
Task Manager. These multiple entries sometimes causes the machine act in
'unexpected' ways. I can remove these entries by using 'End Process'.

Is there any known reason why this particular program does not always clear
itself from memory when closed and is there anything I can do to ensure it
does shut down 'correctly'?

Windows will retain code in RAM when a program shuts down against the
possibility of your loading it again. So I think it is more a matter
of how Powerdesk starts up; as an alternative shell operation it may
well behave in odd ways. They may be expecting that it is something you
load *and leave loaded*.