elbiter comments on Anon time travels

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[–] elbiter@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

On the other hand, maybe it's time to optimize and unbloat the software a little. It doesn't make sense that a notepad takes 1 GB and the mouse driver takes 2...

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[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

That was my shower thought this morning. Maybe some good will come of these circumstances in the form of optimization.

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Maybe in the open source world, but I expect Microsoft software to continue to decline in quality

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

and the mouse driver takes 2...

That's the (webbrowser-in-disguise) configuration GUI, running in background (beside the tracking.exe) because why not.

But even in Windows, a driver needs no background service; just kill it. And if it does, you can locate the respective driver files and add them via some Windows utility (google that).

Also, Autoruns is a nice way to clean up the startup mess.

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