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Post by Pilot on Nov 25, 2011 16:32:04 GMT -5
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Post by RoadDemon on Nov 26, 2011 5:21:39 GMT -5
I know the big companys think there is money to be had in all that data from peoples web surfing. But for the life of me I can't figure out how they expect to extract that money.
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Post by Captain Zedo on Nov 26, 2011 15:03:01 GMT -5
I've been annoyed at Facebook all year. I've tried to get a page going where people who haven't seen me since high school and such could find me and get an email address to contact me. That's really about all the use I have of Facebook. They can't get that right. They are continuously trying to "improve" my account. Well, they've improved themselves beyond use and interest in my opinion.
A lot of businesses improve themselves to death. I've come to see all improvements, upgrades, and updates as bad.
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Post by RoadDemon on Nov 27, 2011 15:02:04 GMT -5
A lot of businesses improve themselves to death. I've come to see all improvements, upgrades, and updates as bad. I believe that is what they call change for the sake of change. There are many a buisness guilty of that.
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Post by Captain Zedo on Nov 28, 2011 7:51:33 GMT -5
A lot of businesses improve themselves to death. I've come to see all improvements, upgrades, and updates as bad. I believe that is what they call change for the sake of change. There are many a buisness guilty of that. If the changes were just for the sake of being different, then some changes would be a little better and some a little worse. It would balance out over time. This isn't the case with most companies like Facebook. All change has been negative for everyone except corporate interests. The very word "upgrade" makes me cringe. My favorite example of this is how Windows will update your computer without even checking to see if your computer can run the update. From Windows Vista on, it's been much more difficult to prevent and roll back updates on American versions of Windows. They're improving themselves out of the market. I just finished an article about how the smart phone companies ran like rats away from MS's offer of a phone OS. Wise phone people (not that Android, etc. are doing that well tech-wise).
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Post by Pilot on Nov 28, 2011 16:21:35 GMT -5
I like some change, change that I have 110% control of, microsoft updates are not one of them, every time it asks you to select an update, you get a generic format,
KB01022031239 - Patches a possible exploit "blah continues" KB02584423763 - Patches known existing exploit "blah continues" KB0 ETC.
Know of which tell you if they are really important, and whether it has adverse effects or install YET ANOTHER seemly randomly generated name into your System, Local Service, Network Service, "Your Computer's Name Here"
I have no less than 90 (yah I counted) Programs listed under the Services tab that I have disabled that were installed from everything from Punkbuster to Steam to Microsoft. And it looks like I at least that many more that I haven't disabled from automatically starting.
Do I really need 18 instances of svchost.exe running? I certainly don't know, can I kill all of them with "Task Manger" yes about half.
Could keep going however I'll end with this, microdates are helpful and useless at the same time, they do little to provide enough information on what is absolutely necessary vs. what updates can bog down you PC till you decide to step back and do a clean install.
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Post by ouch on Nov 29, 2011 2:50:16 GMT -5
Just an FYI for those who don't know, svchost.exe is the Service Host program. All those services listed on your computer run from one or more instances of svchost.exe.
So if you start killing off svchost.exe some bad stuff might happen. However going in and disabling some of the crap ton of services in windows will result in fewer instances of svchost.exe and a much faster computer as your cpu threads will not be stolen/switched around quite as much.
another trick is if you have a multicore system you can restrict certain programs to use one cpu core. So you can force svchost.exe instances onto one cpu so they don't disrupt the others. (really only shows improvements in extreme cases of svchost.exe spam though)
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Post by Captain Zedo on Nov 29, 2011 8:33:58 GMT -5
I agree entirely with OUCH about svhost. Almost all of your online services run through svhost. Trying to kill svhost processes is non-productive because you can never quite track which program is using which svhost. So, even if you find a malicious one, you probably can't find the program causing it. If you think your connection is being used illicitly, I recommend using a configurable firewall (I use ZoneAlarm). I also recommend checking every program booting up with your system using AutoRuns or equivalent. Here's AutoRuns (it's free and professional grade): www.freewarefiles.com/Autoruns_program_14225.htmlYou should also scan your drive every once in a while for malicious software keeping in mind that the best updated scanners only catch some 14% of malware.
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