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Re:Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone by winternett on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:37PM (#32227990)
Google Chrome also seems to eat memory like cookie monster as it scans your entire HD... It also doesn't give the memory back until crash or close.

Windows task manager now is total crap. It does nothing to distinguish official (OS) services from app services, and does not enable easy app moderation at all. At this point we should be able to right click apps and processes directly in task manager to get a description on what they do and whether they are safe, rather than having to google their names and get info from shoddy and poorly written 3rd party pop-up and ad-laced "tech guru" sites.

The future so far has underwhelmed me software-wise honestly.

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Re:Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone by jgerrish on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:28PM (#32228780)
It'll get there, maybe not this generation, but it'll get there.

I still remember messing with Sysinternals decades ago. It was inspiring seeing what it opened up.

And I get the tradeoff between that and the Apple HIG. I really do.

But Microsoft still has that ecosystem behind them. It's frustrating downloading a game on Steam or an app only to have it just not run in your primary OS.

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Re:Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone by karmakurtisaani on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:03AM (#32239324)
> The future so far has underwhelmed me software-wise honestly.

Luckily this is not the case when it comes to Linux. It just keeps getting better by the year.

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Re:Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone by blibble on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:20PM (#32230387)
chrome for some reason bundles a secret anti-virus scanner that does full disk scans at intervals, chewing io and cpu

it can be disabled via a registry key, but still annoying

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Re:Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone by winternett on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:58PM (#32230826)
It's not an anti virus scanner... It never finds any viruses. It certainly roots through all your files though.
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Re:Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone by blibble on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:38PM (#32231881)
it is an anti-virus scanner, just specifically targeted at things that mess with chrome

https://blog.google/products/chrome/cleaner-safer-web-chrome...

(I only noticed it because I saw it in resource monitor one day)

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