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Re:Solving the 100GB Game Download by gregod on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:59PM (#37963164)
Related: MS Office 2010 was/is available as "click-to-run" edition, based on a virtual streaming file system.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/office...

The tech/product behind it has its roots in game distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_App-V

Re:Solving the 100GB Game Download by permo-w on Friday October 20, 2023 @09:05PM (#37963192)
is that the same "Office Click-to-Run" that I've had to disable running from start-up perhaps 15 times?
Re:Solving the 100GB Game Download by pierrefermat1 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:41AM (#37964632)
My god is that thing genuinely cancerous, the autoruns software helped me get rid of it for good
Re:Solving the 100GB Game Download by permo-w on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:07PM (#37969165)
the real problem here isn't office ctr, it's the fact that there are 10 different ways to run a third-party program from start-up, many of which are not only opt-out but opt-out somewhere deep in the mysteries of the regisphere