Born on a mixed subsistence farm in rural Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Moved to Ontario in 1967 to attend University at what was then Waterloo Lutheran University and moved to Oakville, Ontario in 1971. Without intending to live up to the name became a letter carrier the following January and have worked for Canada Post ever since. I retired in August of 2008.

Monday, February 07, 2011

Got to love Windows OS

My laptop which uses Windows Vista is setup so that it is supposed to defer to user programs over background processes. Why then does Windows start a background process while I am using my computer that will serve to overload and lock up the system? Is there any background process so important that it should trump the user’s right to use his machine?

Should not Windows have a protocol that requires it to check to see if there are sufficient system resources and memory to start a background process. After all if starting it causes the computer to lock up the process will fail in any case.

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