Recent content by RickC

I have it on a test laptop so I can possibly help with queries. There's no way at the moment that I'm going to use it anywhere else. It's quite glaringly a 'work in progress'... and I don't enjoy being a beta tester.

Geek Uninstaller is a portable app so no installation is necessary. I'm just doing a 'Reset' now so I can see what - if any - difference a couple of tweaks, including removal of WebView2, make to the restart times. Update: Hmm, a 'Reset' did NOT reinstall WebView2 (which surprised me)... so...

I updated to Windows 11 22000.65.210704-1725.CO_RELEASE and confirmed that WebView2 processes were still running amok. I used Geek Uninstaller to uninstall the WebView2 app, restarted and now Windows 11 is more responsive on my test laptop (which only has 4GB RAM).

No worries... it's not important. I'm still just looking around and haven't yet attached my Windows 11 test laptop to any local network let alone the internet so it's a moot point anyway. :)

Thank you, @Bree. I'm so used to doing clean installs with a script that, amongst other things, automatically removes the Feedback Hub. As a result I wasn't aware that this had changed.

And I was on my employer's IT test team working with MS bods onsite to implement Windows 7 across ~6500 devices in one fell swoop. MS' UAT team ran rings around us because they knew the metrics to look for and all we had was the badly-formed opinions of users who were basically not skilled in...

That's just a personal peeve. More importantly, genuinely useful Quality Assurance (QA) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is, in my experience, almost an art form... it's that specialised.

Why? We don't get paid to do MS' UAT and QA testing for it instead of the highly skilled and qualified test teams it got rid of. Also, unless it has changed, the Feedback Hub requires logging in with an MS account... and that's just a step too far.

Yes I do... but I now have to hover over each icon until the 'right' one appears. Now imagine having to explain what to do to a newcomer: 'You have to memorise the function of each one of these pictograms... or hover the mouse pointer over each one until a tooltip explains each one's purpose."...

@scrapheap - I deleted my earlier post because it was off-topic... but thank you.

I'm way too old to - what is it - 'roll with the dude'. I just want a rock-solid OS that doesn't change itself all by itself more often than I change my underwear and which I can just run the programs I want to run, with no interference by some twerp of an organisation that purports to know...

I've been taking it out for a dance around the floor and - so far - I must admit that I'm not all that impressed by what appears to be mainly badly-thought-out cosmetic changes. One example: I'm getting older... and I right-click on a file. Now I have to remember the meaning of each icon which...

Wait until MS mandate developers include support for WebView in their apps... just so it doesn't die a slow and painful death like Silverlight.

It's on my ToDo list to look at. I'm amazed my laptop has any oomph left to run MY programs. I cannot think of any reason why I would want it bolted on to an OS by default... and I'm only ever going to use Edge to download an alternate browser. :)

I'm using Windows 11 (22000.51.210619-2323.CO_RELEASE) on a Dell Latitude E7450 I'm using as a test device whilst I look around. Note that I haven't yet connected this laptop to my home network, let alone the internet. I had Process Monitor (ProcMon) running when I noticed the amount of...