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Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Microsoft shouldn't have killed Wordpad. Imagine if they updated it instead with docx compatibility.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

CTRL-ALT-DELETE - Task Manager - Click the little fuel gauge on the left hand side to access and disable startup items.

Copilot? Disabled.
Microsoft 365 Copilot? Disabled.
Teams? Disabled.
Microsoft To Do? Disabled.
OneDrive? Disabled.
Phone Link? Disabled.
Xbox? Disabled.

Just add one more to the list...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I remember when I was tasked with fixing up a personal/work PC of my colleague who was our lead artist. I was a bit shocked to see WinXP there, when win10 was already the norm, and with quite a bunch of severely outdated software on it. At the time, I thought "well, at least it does the job well enough for him to be still employed". Now I understand that he was probably onto something...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Libre does this as well.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

shrugs in linux

Articles like this and the fact they're still trying to get recall back was reason enough for me to switch again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

The fuck? LibreOffice/any office suite in a browser is better than this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Only if you have installed MS Office, it was one of the first thing which I deleted, among with other MS Bloatware and services "to improve the user experience". A clean Windows is a difference like day and night with the defauly one, in speed, stability and RAM usage. The specs of my modded Windows11 24H2 (Acer laptop)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Not sure what you want to show with that screenshot. It tells you that 700 MB of your installed RAM is reserved for your integrated GPU which doesn't really have to do anything with Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Microsoft:

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