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Re:Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful by fouc on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @11:38AM (#29568259)
>By the way, ALL OF THIS could be avoided if Microsoft and Apple provided an API to set the name displayed in Task Manager/Activity Monitor.

The problem is process lists should be showing the true state of the computer. It wouldn't be a good idea to hide the actual executable name. But it sounds like it could be useful to add another column for "label", so that threads could set a label and offer more insight on the process list.

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Re:Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful by brianwski on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @11:53AM (#29568475)
> useful to add another column for "label",

Yeah, that would work really well. When you look at the "services" control panel in Windows, there are two columns. One column is "Name" of the service, and another column is a longer explanation with the column header "Description". I put a small description in there for bzserv (our service) plus a URL to our company website. I think this is just being polite, customers who don't recognize what "bzserv" is can immediate find more information on it.

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