Re: Compendium of Windows shortcomings (general & Win10 specific)

From	Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Compendium of Windows shortcomings (general & Win10 specific)
Date	2015-08-20 16:09 +0000
Organization	Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
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References	<mqo3u9$r0k$1@solani.org> <55d28d41.4731664@nntp.aioe.org> <mr4si1$7tg$1@news.xmission.com>

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On 2015-08-20, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> In article <55d28d41.4731664@nntp.aioe.org>,
> natp <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>>RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>
>>>From the «missing cool daemon or penguin logo» department:
>>>Title: 'Why Windows 10 sucks'
>>>Author: Thom Holwerda
>>>Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 09:20:38 -0400
>>>Link: http://osnews.com/story/28776/_Why_Windows_10_sucks_
>>
>>>This article
>>
>>...is here:
>>http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why-windows-10-sucks.html
>>
>>He doesn't like svchost, viz:
>>"svchost.exe (the whole philosophy of preserving RAM this way became outdated
>>years ago)."
>>
>>What does this mean? How does svchost.exe conserve memory, compared
>>to the alternative? (What _is_ the alternative?)
>>
>
> I don't claim to be an expert on this - these are just user observations.

Good article (not just applicable to Vista) here;

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-svchostexe-and-why-is-it-running/


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Compendium of Windows shortcomings (general & Win10 specific) RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-08-15 19:29 +0000
  Re: Compendium of Windows shortcomings (general & Win10 specific) nobody@nowhere.invalid (natp) - 2015-08-18 01:43 +0000
    Re: Compendium of Windows shortcomings (general & Win10 specific) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-08-20 15:42 +0000
      Re: Compendium of Windows shortcomings (general & Win10 specific) Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-20 16:09 +0000
        Re: Compendium of Windows shortcomings (general & Win10 specific) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2015-08-20 20:03 +0000

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