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dandy72 wrote: I know the hotkey to activate it is always available Therefore it's TSR, and therefore it's using system resources, even on business and work machines, where games are either not permitted or wanted.
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"TSR"...how DOS-like of you.
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Unix as well, wasn't it?
But no-one's come up with a better term ("service" really doesn't qualify, because it's hugely ambiguous), so why not use the one that's not broken?
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I dunno. Sounds overkill for what is essentially nothing more than a keyboard hook.
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The way they've been going, the last few years, you'll probably find that it's a 20Meg "keyboard hook".
128b for the functionality, and (20Meg - 128b) to keep xbox live informed of what games you're not playing, at the moment.
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So I take it then that's not much of an issue if you've never created an Xbox Live account, as it wouldn't have a clue what account to associate that data with...
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... But still it runs...
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Therefore it's TSR Not necessarily.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Is this the five-minute argument, or the full half-hour?
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Neither.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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*Sigh*[^]
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If you can't stand the sh*t stay out of the playpen.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Sorry, but I've finished work, now, and I'm not allowed to argue on my own time.
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Who's arguing?
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It works; it does all that I need it to do.
Works for work (Visual Studio); works for games (Steam, and Battle.net)
Works for photos (Lightroom), works for music (Fruity Loops).
Works for web browsing.
That is pretty much all I do on Windows.
I don't see any big issues, or, thinking about it, any (*)
(*) There are always exceptions, I have a recurring File Explorer crash due to some Shell extensions, probably tortoise GIT.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Works for work (Visual Studio) Which is a separate install of something that they don't add as bloat. Fair enough.
Maximilien wrote: works for games (Steam, and Battle.net) So you don't use the baked-in games bloatware facilities?
Maximilien wrote: Works for photos (Lightroom) So you don't use the baked in graphics bloatware facilities?
Maximilien wrote: works for music (Fruity Loops) So you don't use the baked-in media bloatware facilities?
Maximilien wrote: Works for web browsing. Lemme guess: You don't use the baked-in browsing bloatware facilities.
It looks to me like you're using it as an OS, to run your hardware and give you access to the applications that you want to use. That's commendable, because you're using the OS for the precise reason that it exists.
It's a shame that they don't share your focus.
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It is stable for me and prefer it to my office computer; which is running Windows 7.
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When seemingly necessary.
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"After the Win10 Anniversary Upgrade"...
After? I've tried installing this upgrade six times. Each time it gets to 90% plus, then comes up with "Restoring your previous operating system".
Not a word or hint of what the problem may have been - just "I'll put you back where you were".
Thanks MS - how about some diagnostics?
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I ran the upgrade and had stability issues.
So I did a clean re-install and no longer have stability issues.
It's basically a re-skin of Windows 7 at this point, after the data aggregators were turned off. It's fine, and absolutely superb compared to a KDE-Plasma desktop (though only a touch better than Gnome).
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I too have found it stable and as good or better than Win 7.
See my post here[^] for more.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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... when you don't take quite enough aluminium foil to completely wrap your sandwiches and there's about half an inch of exposed bread...
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You shouldn't have used so much to make your hat !
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I use for that some no-name "Tupperware". And it is also good for the environment.
Because aluminium needs a big chunk of energy to get produced.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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..eat half an inch?
Seriously
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