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Originally Posted by PatNY

As I said, regardless whether they are separate services, the resources consumed by GWX are so insignificant as to be negligible. Stopping GWX is going to save you 0% CPU and <1mb memory, according to my system. So keeping it enabled is not going to waste "even one cycle" (when inactive, which is most of the time) and won't be"slowing down your computer" (as you put it).

And following that logic, we should activate services for every piece of software in creation. 'cause it's just 1MB (except when it isn't). And then you look at the dozens of services and notice that your computer is crawling at a snail's pace.

If there is no valid reason for a service to exist, how is the negligible impact a valid excuse?

Your logic works for people who don't care about what's on their computer (and usually have a swiss-army-knife collection of all the applications in creation). But to someone who has actually notice the service exists, a MB here and there is morally offensive, not practically offensive.

IOW, you are missing the point, as well as your target audience.

Sure, if you want to do everything manually and IF you remember to do it. I'm not too sure the update will appear if you uninstall GWX. Regardless, since there is really no hit on resources or performance keeping GWX installed and active, I would recommend most people who plan to upgrade keep it -- and not disable it. Or at the very least keep it, even if you want to disable the notifications.

Again, I would venture to say that most of the people who care would prefer to download the update manually rather than keep extraneous services running. Also, the are more likely to be the type to e.g. clean install, keep backup media, etc.

I've also seen a few reports where people uninstalled the update, hid it, and then when they went back into Windows Update to get it back, couldn't find it.

Possibly because they didn't look under "hidden updates"?

I didn't say anyone was "bothered" by the situation. I said someone made a "big issue" of it, which is not necessarily the same thing. Though "big issue" might be a slight overstatement, there were at least 3 posts in this thread (813, 819, and 834) warning about the lack of native DVD support in W8.1/10 and the possible need to have to pay to get that back. I would characterize the 3 posts as at least significant discussion.

I would categorize your categorization of "slight overstatement" as more than a slight overstatement.
And no one made a big issue of it, it simply happened to be mentioned. Inside a discussion where every last little detail gets hashed over endlessly. And the topic was the politics of doing so, e.g. why MS decided to make that change.

The tone of the discussion was plainly focused on its status as a default, preinstalled media player.

The point I was making is this -- the misconception about the possible need to pay for DVD support in W10 was never corrected in any of those 3 posts, and those upgrading to W10 will not have to pay one extra cent if they want it. My post had nothing to do with WMC per se or any other multimedia functions.

--Pat

Consider your point made... by these posts here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...87#post3118587
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...lc#post3118984
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...lc#post3119290

When you say "the misconception about the possible need to pay for DVD support in W10 was never corrected in any of those 3 posts", you are totally correct... the misconception that none of the participants had was corrected in several posts around the posts you cherry-picked.