Re: [NTLK] Freezing packages

From: Betty (bettyy_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 18:05:06 PDT


I thought I read once that you can "delete" the built in applications. They're not really deleted but they will no longer load. To get them back, you would have to do one of those resets that puts everything back to factory settings.

Betty
bettyy at earthlink dot net

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Joseph <martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com>
Sent: May 23, 2004 1:33 AM
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Freezing packages

On May 23, 2004, at 12:39 AM, Robert Benschop wrote:

> On 23-mei-04, at 05:08, John A wrote:
>> Maybe I'm wrong, but I always understood that freezing the built-in
>> apps didn't help anything because those apps were in ROM. Is that not
>> correct? Actually, I didn't think you could freeze those apps anyway.
>
> I always presumed the same, but after the request I tried and I did get
> a freeze option for Notes, though freezing didn't seem to do anything.
> AFAIK you're right and they're in ROM and can't be frozen but only
> 99.99% sure... ;-)
>
I don't know either, but it still seems like you should be able to
freeze rom based packages. They just wouldn't load or take heap at
that point?

Just my guess...
marty

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