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Tim Meddick typed:
Twayne,
Again, you keep talking about 3rd-part
applications but you yourself have stated in correcting me,
that Sysinternals ARE Microsoft!!
Even if this particular piece of software was originally
created before the 2006 acquisition [of Sysinternals] it is
still being offered on the website so is still classed as
supported software, ultimately by Microsoft.
So, you can hardly keep calling it 3rd-party software!

Let's see; it was written by SysInternals. Microsoft purchased the code so
now the rights belong to MS. MS has not rewritten it, nor have they done
anything to it other than quash competition, so it's still SysInternals in
origin. It remains 3rd party software in that sense.
lol, still, you did do a good nit-pick there! So did I. But the fact
remains, it is still adding a very considerable amount of code for the
workings of the OS from a maintenance and repair view. Added code, more
parts in other words, is more opportunity for failure in a system overall.
Compare it to the tiny amount of code a batch file can often do and
accomplish identical results. The simplest solution is always the best
solution and w/r to an OS, letting the OS do what it can do natively is a
lot more efficient than using external code to accomplish it.

It sort of amuses me that people will even sometimes even pay money for the
"privilege" of getting more code to add to their systems when it's simply a
couple of one-time setting changes in the OS.
I'm going to concede this arguement to you though, because, from a user
viewpoint, the "easiest| thing for them to do is add a program than have to
figure out how to do it the "right" way. That's born out by the fact that
folks will often seek out an automated way to do what they want and they
don't consider having to tweak a setting in their OS as worth their time.
Instead they look for things like tweak-ui et al. That's not something that
will change very soon.

Cheers,

Twayne`


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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Twayne" wrote in message
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You completely miss my point, though I really didn't want
to dwell on it. 3rd party software adds another layer of
things that can go wrong...... clipped