Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!samsung!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hplsla!davidr From: davidr@hplsla.HP.COM (David M. Reed) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Starting processes Message-ID: <3130022@hplsla.HP.COM> Date: 19 Jul 90 05:30:54 GMT References: Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA Lines: 10 I believe what you are being informed of is that the application really will not "run" in the background. This does not mean the application will die (thus it can be iconized or switched to the background, and later de-iconized or brought to the foreground), but that if it were performing some process (such as a sort, recalculation, or any other process that actually requires cpu cycles) that the process is suspended while the application is running in the foreground, and will probably resume when brougt back to the foreground whatever it was doing when it was put in the background. In other words, you get task-switching, but not true multi-tasking like DESQview provides.