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I vehemently dislike it. Even though they bandaged many of the UI problems I had with 8 they are still obviously pushing for a more "cellphone-style" UI. Easier and safer for your average user yet frustrating and unwieldy for your advanced users. Then you slap on top of that the fact Microsoft is installing even more bloatware than ever even going so far as to install some that measurably impact system performance (I'm looking at you XBox Game DVR). Add to that the fact 10 has been plagued with OS-breaking bugs basically since it came out and I'm fine sticking with 7. I could rant more but that's the gist of it. I like something simple, efficient, and customizable. In that regard even 7 isn't perfect but with a little bit of command-line magic you can beat it into submission. Bye bye Security Center, see you in hell 
Of course all of this is my opinion 
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Quote: Of course all of this is my opinion
I concur with that opinion!
I so wanted it to be an "Improved Win7" rather than a "Patched Win8" but I was bitterly disappointed.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Jon McKee wrote: even more bloatware than ever even going so far as to install some that measurably impact system performance (I'm looking at you XBox Game DVR)
How does the Xbox game DVR "measurably impact system performance" if you don't even run it?
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Apparently something I'm saying in my original response is marked as spam. So to summarize: automatically runs in background and can't be disabled without registry tweak unless you have a MS account.
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I know the hotkey to activate it is always available (I forget what it is), but that doesn't mean the whole application is running at all times.
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Again I can't respond in full due to spam filter *sigh* Summary: Streamer frame loss, game FPS drop. New versions possibly fixed, I dunno. Why even have it auto-run when many users don't even own the console though? Useless feature that should have been optional to begin with.
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So.........what's the name of the process responsible for this?
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dandy72 wrote: I know the hotkey to activate it is always available
Therefore it's TSR, and therefore it's using system resources, even on business and work machines, where games are either not permitted or wanted.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"TSR"...how DOS-like of you. 
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Unix as well, wasn't it?
But no-one's come up with a better term ("service" really doesn't qualify, because it's hugely ambiguous), so why not use the one that's not broken?
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I dunno. Sounds overkill for what is essentially nothing more than a keyboard hook.
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The way they've been going, the last few years, you'll probably find that it's a 20Meg "keyboard hook".
128b for the functionality, and (20Meg - 128b) to keep xbox live informed of what games you're not playing, at the moment.
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So I take it then that's not much of an issue if you've never created an Xbox Live account, as it wouldn't have a clue what account to associate that data with...
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... But still it runs...
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Therefore it's TSR
Not necessarily.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Is this the five-minute argument, or the full half-hour?
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Neither.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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*Sigh*[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you can't stand the sh*t stay out of the playpen. 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Sorry, but I've finished work, now, and I'm not allowed to argue on my own time.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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 Who's arguing?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It works; it does all that I need it to do.
Works for work (Visual Studio); works for games (Steam, and Battle.net)
Works for photos (Lightroom), works for music (Fruity Loops).
Works for web browsing.
That is pretty much all I do on Windows.
I don't see any big issues, or, thinking about it, any (*)
(*) There are always exceptions, I have a recurring File Explorer crash due to some Shell extensions, probably tortoise GIT.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Works for work (Visual Studio)
Which is a separate install of something that they don't add as bloat. Fair enough.
Maximilien wrote: works for games (Steam, and Battle.net)
So you don't use the baked-in games bloatware facilities?
Maximilien wrote: Works for photos (Lightroom)
So you don't use the baked in graphics bloatware facilities?
Maximilien wrote: works for music (Fruity Loops)
So you don't use the baked-in media bloatware facilities?
Maximilien wrote: Works for web browsing.
Lemme guess: You don't use the baked-in browsing bloatware facilities.
It looks to me like you're using it as an OS, to run your hardware and give you access to the applications that you want to use. That's commendable, because you're using the OS for the precise reason that it exists.
It's a shame that they don't share your focus.
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It is stable for me and prefer it to my office computer; which is running Windows 7.
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When seemingly necessary.
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