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Is there a manual way to put a Metro app into suspended state? Why I want to do this - for testing background task

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Hello,
Is there a way (tool, API) to put the Metro app into suspended state? Reason: I am testing the Metro background task and if the app is not suspended; my background task would not run. Even the Task-Manager did not have an option to suspend a Metro process.
Thx,
CoderFriday, February 3, 2012 8:05 PM
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VS has trigger suspend & resume menu options.
Friday, February 3, 2012 9:13 PM -
Is there a way (tool, API) to put the Metro app into suspended state?
I'm not sure it is the same thing but I can shut up Zero Gravity by using Performance Monitor and right-click Suspend. You can start perfmon.exe from TM's Performance tab.---
Friday, February 3, 2012 9:35 PM -
I can shut up Zero Gravity by using Performance Monitor and right-click Suspend.Irfan
Friday, February 24, 2012 5:22 PM -
I am unable to access apps in the Performance Monitor, how does one do it, Robert, please.
Maybe I should have called it Resource Monitor, even though it is perfmon.exe in W8. It's the same thing as in W7. Start it from the Performance tab and then right-click the Process you want to suspend. In the case of Zero Gravity the process Image name is Microsoft.ZeroGravity.exe
Robert
---Saturday, February 25, 2012 6:01 AM -
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Thanks Robert Aldwincle,
by the time I reach Microsoft.ZeroGravity.exe through the Resource Monitor, it's already become a suspended app because it has by now become a background metro application. One can access the Task Manager while running a Metro App but I don't know how to get to Performance Monitor while still there, unless one finds a way that it runs over the open app, the way TM does.
Irfan
Saturday, February 25, 2012 12:46 PM -
by the time I reach Microsoft.ZeroGravity.exe through the Resource Monitor, it's already become a suspended app because it has by now become a background metro application.
I have two monitors.
One can access the Task Manager while running a Metro App but I don't know how to get to Performance Monitor while still there
From the TM Performance tab's Resource Monitor link, the same as W7. In fact, now that I am back on W7 I see that it is identical to what we get on W8. "Resource Monitor" is an alias for the perfmon.exe task. Well, maybe not completely identical. I thought I noticed that there was a switch on perfmon.exe in the W8 Resource Monitor's task's Command line? In W7 there is no Command line. Nevertheless right-click Go to Process on it shows that it is perfmon.exe.
---Saturday, February 25, 2012 3:09 PM