Why do I have to log in into my single user Windows 10 desktop? And before I can sign in, I also have to click on an ugly lock screen image, which for some reason displays unasked for advertisement. Why do I have to sign in each time I close laptop lid or after screen goes dark?
"My old windows phone opens pictures better than this."
"The Windows 10 photo viewer seems to be quite advanced and is not your run-of-the-mill image viewer. Mine was slow too, which led me to do some minor research.
1) The app "phones-home" to Microsoft with some sort of usage data. This uses your network connection. If you have a slow network, or other reasons why networking slow, this could be your problem.
2) The app maintains a database (SQLite) of images. The database contains information on all your images. So if you open up the app in a folder with a lot of other images, you will see a slowdown because it's doing a lot of querying (probably to speed up slideshow).
This is all I found so far. These factors explain enough of why the old image viewer would be quicker."
>>43-44 How long will it take until someone is incarcerated because they took pictures of their kids in the bath and uploaded it to the cloud not knowing the implications of his actions? Considering the fact that 70% of the sex offender registry aren't serious offenders but rather men and women who hooked up with 17 year-olds who managed to sneak into 21+ bars, I can't imagine it would be that long.
>>49 You can't block the ports or ips on the machine, has to be at router level
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Anonymous2017-10-08 17:14
Ok. I've found IrfanView, which works like 100 times faster, works without internet connection and supports obscure formats, like TGA, DDS, and PCX. I just wonder, why Microsoft, having billions of dollars income, can't produce something as simple as a photo viewer? Microsoft could have just purchased that IrfantView and bundle it with Windows 10?
>>54 There is nothing wrong with SystemD (properly capitalized for you, you savage!) except Poettering.
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Anonymous2017-10-19 19:05
"Killing Cortana isn’t as easy as it used to be.
When Windows 10 first released, turning off Cortana was as simple as flipping a switch in the digital assistant’s settings, but Microsoft removed the option in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Now there’s no obvious way to disable Cortana—but it is possible using not-so-obvious methods."
TLDR: Cortana is that huge bloated piece of code, that slows down you computer and does nothing good, besides recording every sound in your room and sending it to FSB.
And the notification app itself, ShellExperienceHost.exe, takes 32 megabytes of RAM just to show a few text messages. Quake 3 had similar memory footprint.
"CDP Service itself says: This service is used for Connected Devices and Universal Glass scenarios" ... yes, the service can say whatever it wants to. It could just say "hi, I'm a service". As a developer, I'm a bit concerned about seeing all these strange, non-configurable services showing up as "updates" to the operating system. I have also had a tough time shutting this particular, name-changing service off. – Patrick Sep 5 '16
Yay! Windows 10 comes with so many useful services with Internet access!
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Anonymous2017-10-24 23:11
Find a service called CDPUserSvc_xxxxx, where xxxxx are 5 randomly generated character (yes, Windows is using literal malware techniques to prevent automated removal of this trash).
I like vidya so Windows is a must, but I do prefer Linux. you don't need to use systemd, just install Alpine (it's also good for triggering stallmanists as it's an actual non-GNU Linux distro)
Forgot to mention that new laptops always come bundled with gigabytes of bloatware, from Asus, Connexant, Kingsoft, Intel, etc.. A lot of this bloatware has memory resident parts, launched at startup to spy on you and waste memory - their memory usage can easily go to 300 mb, which is a lot if you have just a 2000mb, 1000mb of which is wasted by Firefox, which is the smallest memory footprint browser (Edge and Chrome take 2000 mb opening same set of pages), although I still remember earlier IEs running on 32mb RAM machines without any troubles or noticeable garbage collection or swap-file pauses.
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Anonymous2017-10-28 13:47
>>75 Also, Asus installation wizard allows only installing additional bloatware, like Avast Secureline, but not uninstalling existing one.
So mainstream proprietary operating systems are shit, Linux is shit because of bloated GNU shit and Poettering with his systemd garbage, the BSDs don't have a big enough community to counter this nonsense, nobody wants to donate and contribute to ReactOS and Amiga is hanging by a thread as always.
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Anonymous2017-10-28 15:24
Many useless spying services, like Tile Data Model Server (bloatware, downloading tile-ads and sending your info to Microsoft and its partners), cannot be disabled from services.msc app, but only from by regedit. In earlier builds these services could be easily disabled, but Microsoft has fixed that bug.