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Originally Posted by Blossom
My main problem with portable software is if multiple users use the same PC then you need to add it to each profile. When you install a program it's available to all users.
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The simplest way to deal with that is the intended usage for portable apps - you put them on a USB thumb drive and run them from there. They are portable because you can carry the thumb drive around and plug it into whatever machine you happen to be using.
As long as the thumb drive is plugged in, the user sitting at the machine can access it. No need for pointers in a user profile.
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As for Windows 10 my main complaint is how much is running in the background. I also hate having control taken from me. I need to figure out a way to optimized this laptop for performance.
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There has
always been a lot of stuff running in the background on NT based versions of Windows. Win10 is
not significantly worse.
A lot of the background tasks are related to Windows services, and you can stop them by disabling the service. But that's a "You better know what you're doing" move, and not recommended for the average user.
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In the old Windows 98 days I used a program called Tune Up for that. Software was trustworthy then.
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You have a novel idea of trustworthy. Despite my efforts to keep things clean and optimized, Win98SE reached the point of needing to be rebooted four of five times a day. (And I'm an IT guy who knew what he was doing.) That's scarcely something I'd call "trustworthy".
When I finally got a driver for my SCSI scanner and could migrate to Win2K, I was ecstatic. It was up 24/7, and Just Ran. It was only rebooted it I was fiddling with hardware or installed something that required it.
I don't miss Win9X at all.
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Dennis