A way to make programs in Windows Mobile actually close?

So Microsoft, being ever so intelligent, decided that, unlike in desktop Windows, where the small X in the upper right corner of the program window closes it, it will only make the program “minimize” (no actual taskbar, so not really minimized, just pushed to the background.) I don’t uinderstand why this is, other than merely as a means to have multiple programs at once, and not take up screen real esate with a taskbar-like thing. Since the screen is small, this makes some sense, but would it have been so hard to make a ‘_’ button to do that, and an ‘x’ button to actually close it?

So mini-rant aside, is there some registrry/program hack I can do that will make the programs close? Not all of them have a real menu with an ‘exit’/‘close’ option, so the only way I can actually close them is to go into settings->system->memory->running programs, and then stop them. Very tedious and annoying, and I want something better.

(Though aside from that, I have no major gripes with the phone.)

Try the small and free Magic Button.

Hold down the “OK” button and the running programs list will display, letting you close them as necessary.

On T-Mobile phones the fun hack is to remap the useless TZones button to the task manager-check howardforums for how to’s…

I’ll try that magic button thing.

But not all programs have an ok button, some just have the x.