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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject: Re: How To Speed Startup Of Microsoft Office? Have It Running All The Time!
Date: 28 Mar 2025 18:58:31 GMT
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Peter Johnson <peter@parksidewood.nospam> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:30:43 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >Microsoft is trying to reduce the time it takes to start Office on
> >Windows, by moving part of the work to the time when you boot your PC
> ><https://www.theverge.com/news/637469/microsoft-office-speed-boost-faster-launch>.
> >
> >What a wonderful idea: make an app start faster by making your machine
> >take longer to boot. What if other major Windows apps did the same
> >thing? Wouldn?t it be cool to have all these apps lurking in the
> >background, already running, chewing up memory and CPU cycles?
> 
> Look under the Startup Apps in the task manager and you'll find a
> whole load of things that run at startup. Mine includes the Dymo label
> printer app, Copernic desktop search and the app that monitors the
> battery backup.

  Exactly, nothing new. But perhaps for Lawrence's - apparently - stone
age OS, which doesn't know how to have such 'Startup Boost' (and
similar) programs without "chewing up memory and CPU cycles", when
they're "lurking in the background, already running" [1]. That problem
was already solved at least some four decades ago.

[1] Of course his OS *can* do that. After all, it's Unix-like, isn't it?