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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You're completely missing the point.
That Windows 10 icon represents a Windows 10 service running nonstop, slowing down your computer. The first rule of fixing chronically slow computers is pruning the useless startup services.
(And as kacir says, the systray has an alarming tendency to reset itself at odd times.)
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Are you sure it's a separate service? I don't think it is. I think it's part of Windows Update which runs all the time anyway. It's just a separate notification of Windows Update. Regardless, I could find no separate service associated with W10 consuming any significant resources in my Task Manager. Additionally, I just posted a link to TWO methods to disable the notification
permanently without having to uninstall the update.
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Windows Media Center appears to offer certain niche features, which a certain niche group of people will miss, that VLC does not -- and there doesn't seem to be a good replacement for it.
Playing DVDs has absolutely nothing to do with it.
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That is incorrect. Someone in a previous post in this thread did make a big issue of having to pay for the privilege of playing DVDs in later versions of Windows including W10 via a third-party app or codec. You do not have to if you download the free VLC. My post had nothing to do with WMC per se.
--Pat