After the installation and a soft reset, the task manager starts unnoticed in the background. If you touch your screen in the right top corner the application appears. And this happens very fast, during my test I have never seen a lag or problems with starting ArkSwitch. The user interface is very clear. If you have running programs in the background you will see them listed in the task manager. You have the possibility to close every program by pressing the cross on the right side or even all programs by using the “close all” button. If you press on the icon of any program you can see some information about it. If you don’t want to see the program in the task manager (when you are using it all the time) you can add it to the exclusion-list easily. Other way to exclude some applications is to type in directly the full path and filename of the process (this is the difficult way). Similarly simple is the way to delete the programs from the exclusion-list. To switch between different running applications you need to press the activation field of ArkSwitch on the taskbar and choose your app, this is very easy and very fast way to use more than one program at the same time.

Another great idea from the developer (Arktronic) is the customizable activation field! In the options of ArkSwitch you can determine where on the taskbar you want to press to launch the task manager. You have the possibility to occupy the whole taskbar of your device or you can put the field into a corner! So it does not matter if you are left or right-handed, you will always be able to adapt the task manager to your needs.

But ArkSwitch does not only show the running programs, it also shows you all running processes in the background! Just slide your finger across from left to right and task manager will show you all running processes. But be careful, here you are able to close even operation system processes, so if you don’t know what the strange processes (like device.exe or gwes.exe) are, don’t close them!

You are looking for a task manager for your windows mobile device that has a nice looking and very clear user interface? You need a task manager that always works reliably? Then I recommend ArkSwitch! This is one of the best task manager applications I have ever used. You can download it for free from codeplex or xda-developers.