[AccessD] A sad tale of wifi hotspot interference

[Stuart McLachlan]

Because they are specialist  developer/administrator tools that the vast majority of WIndows 
users should not even be aware of , and for once,MS are being nice and not contributing to 
OS bloat.


On 2 Oct 2022 at 19:22, John Colby wrote:

> 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/autorun
> > > > s
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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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