[AccessD] A sad tale of wifi hotspot interference

[John Colby]

I did end up downloading it.  But if MS bought it, why do I have to
download it?  Why is it not part of windows?

The mystery of MS.

On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 6:34 PM Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
wrote:

> They did buy it.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysinternals
>
> Originally, the Sysinternals website (formerly known as Wintinternals) was
> created in 1996
> and was operated by the company Winternals Software LP, which was located
> in Austin,
> Texas. It was started by software developers Bryce Cogswell and Mark
> Russinovich.
> Microsoft acquired Winternals and its assets on July 18, 2006.
>
> All of the SysInternals utilities are listed on one page:
>
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/
>
> There are lots there that are VERY useful for developers and it's well
> worth spending a bit of
> time downloading and playing with them :)
>
>
> On 2 Oct 2022 at 18:11, John Colby wrote:
>
> > KI downloaded the app and it is pretty cool and very complete.  Sadly
> > it doesn't install itself.  One would think MS would buy this and
> > integrate it into Windows.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 5:27 PM Stuart McLachlan
> > <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
> >
> > > I use Autoruns to disable all the stuff that I don't wont. It's just
> > > a case of ticking "Disbled" on anything you don't want and removing
> > > the check mark if you want to enable it at any time. Lots of
> > > different categories of things that run or load automagically. One
> > > of the tabs is scheduled tasks
> > >
> > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2 Oct 2022 at 9:13, John Colby wrote:
> > >
> > > > Not the point my friend.  The point is that I had to find them as
> > > > problems.  And most of them I actually use, absent Edge and
> > > > OneDrive.
> > > >
> > > > I found an article pointing to the scheduler, and from there I
> > > > started looking at what all the tasks were, at which point I
> > > > discovered that dozens of things are pinging servers to check for
> > > > updates.  I mean it is obvious that they would (once I thought
> > > > about that subject). What was not obvious is that they would ping
> > > > them so often.
> > > >
> > >
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