When we think back to Windows 95 times, we all remember that we rebooted the machine once a while. This helped to resolve many issues a couple of time and especially had a positive impact on the performance of the machine.

Well, with Windows Mobile, I am experiencing the same situation. Pretty often I have to turn the phone of and back on again. I am not an expert an finding out why, but it is quite obvious that windows mobiles “pollutes” the system memory after running for a couple of days.

Tools that can help is for example the memory collection from Oxios. Theses tools can help you to close running programs all at once and also tries to “clean” your memory. However, these tools help to close and clean, but you still will see that the remaining memory gets less and less after a while. So,lets reboot….

In Windows Mobile, there is no way to reboot the phone. There is shareware in the web which add this feature but also another system tools. Well, in case you just want to reboot, I have something for you and it looks like this:

It simply adds the reboot command to the QuickList. In order to add this feature, just download this file: Reboot.cab , copy it to your Windows Mobile device and install.
Now you have the Reboot option inside the Quick List and there is no need to turn off \ turn on procedures. Well, it saves some time and especially nerves.

I tested it on Windows Mobile 6 but I red that is should work on WIndows Mobile 5 just was well. Just a hint, after I installed it, Windows Mobile had some problems to reload the HomeScreen. Just selecting the same HomeScreen in the HomeScreen Settings did fix this.

Enjoy!

BTW.: Use it at your own risk.

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