Peter Lairo wrote:
Many if not most proprietary applications have TSR modules like OOo quickstart, only they hide the fact from the user and give you no option not to have them load at every boot. Plus there were many modules of Windows XP that ran in the background all the time whether you ever used them or not. I have not looked that deep into Win 7 yet, so I am not sure if it has some of these. Actually this is what I HATE about most anti-virus software, it runs constantly in the background and bogs down your computer. Actually AV programs should only run when you do something that could actually introduce a virus, like downloading your email, the rest of they time they should just wait and not actually run.On Sun. 28.11.2010 19:09, Sebastian G. <bastik> wrote:I'd like to know which components are most used and maybe why others arenot. If you used OpenOffice before you can include your usage data as well.Do you use the quick starter?No!I always turn the damn thing off, and it annoys me that the "quick starter" (aka needlessly-slow-down-my-PC-startup-time) is still ON by default. No application should be so arrogant as to start-up with the OS per default. You don't know what apps the users *typically* uses (I browse and play RAM-hungry games). I can't (well, it's OSS, so I can) believe this dreaded default hasn't been turned off by now.Mozilla/Firefox also experimented with a quick starter for a while, and fortunately abolished the horrid idea.It seems OO (and LO even more so) still hasn't understood the REAL reason why people overwhelmingly choose non-OSS software (Firefox being the *exception*): Usability, and a rational understanding what a regular user *really* is (clue: it's not you).
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