Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Compendium of Windows shortcomings (general & Win10 specific) Date: 20 Aug 2015 16:09:34 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <55d28d41.4731664@nntp.aioe.org> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net wxcrrBzHGIcr51b7hKIpmAQmKp64zgvYu3JjC5YQJS56taR9/y Cancel-Lock: sha1:jipUgwzLPNhtcHl0FTKT4IyKySg= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:8421 On 2015-08-20, Kenny McCormack wrote: > In article <55d28d41.4731664@nntp.aioe.org>, > natp wrote: >>RS Wood 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"svchost.exe (the whole philosophy of preserving RAM this way became outdated 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/ -- Today is Boomtime, the 13th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.