I have a habit of uninstalling any programs that take it upon themselves to start up on boot without me specifically requesting it. Any company with that little respect for the user isn’t one I want to be involved with.
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Back in 1997, most developers would show a 'splash screen' as their application loaded, because of course it takes time for applications to load.
Now we have web apps that show spinners and throbbers, sometimes forever.
Consult a physician if your web app displays a throbber for longer than four hours.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#93Between Office's increasingly bloated size, slow booting and super annoying CoPilot icon right where I'm working (which still can't be turned off in OneNote) - I'm on the edge of dumping Office. I pretty much only use OneNote and a little OneDrive (3% of the included storage plan) to sync files between machines and I run Word and Powerpoint less than a dozen times a year combined. Even as a paying customer, all the O…
you use OneNote? I had text search randomly stop working in that thing, no explanation just nothing found. For me this was the Microsoft last straw.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#94Why on startup? Windows startup is already so painfully slow, especially compared to Apple silicon machines, and adding Office to it would only compound this problem. I think this problem can be avoided, while also still helping pre-load Office, if Windows just detects when resource utilization is low and loads Office in the background then.
I don't know what is different on your system, but my Windows startup experience is that it's blazing fast. Granted, that's on a gaming rig with a decent CPU and it's Windows 10, not 11, but I don't remember having to do any custom de-shittification and it boots way faster than Linux, short enough to not really perceive the boot process as an interruption.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
At installation Chrome, Edge browser and Acrobat Reader all silently add multiple background tasks to Windows startup which will then run at every boot and log on. Those tasks check for updates, pre-load and ensure their usage analytics get dutifully reported. Because I only use those apps on rare occasion, I go remove all those tasks. And each of those apps checks to see if its tasks are still there on every run or…
I'd also like an app that ran on schedule and reverted everything to the state you want. Don't know the solution, but one idea - is it possible to change task permissions so that those Chrome update processes will fail to update tasks?
Installers seem to run with the permission level of "Trusted Installer" which is even higher than admin as far as I can tell.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#96Between Office's increasingly bloated size, slow booting and super annoying CoPilot icon right where I'm working (which still can't be turned off in OneNote) - I'm on the edge of dumping Office. I pretty much only use OneNote and a little OneDrive (3% of the included storage plan) to sync files between machines and I run Word and Powerpoint less than a dozen times a year combined. Even as a paying customer, all the O…
You’ll be back. LibreOffice is so visually gross it’s pretty hard to use.
MS Office is much harder to use for the casual user not already used to it - the interface is very disorienting.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#97Well, Libre/OpenOffice does the same, but lets not get that in the way of a good Microsoft bashing round.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#98Between Office's increasingly bloated size, slow booting and super annoying CoPilot icon right where I'm working (which still can't be turned off in OneNote) - I'm on the edge of dumping Office. I pretty much only use OneNote and a little OneDrive (3% of the included storage plan) to sync files between machines and I run Word and Powerpoint less than a dozen times a year combined. Even as a paying customer, all the O…
You’ll be back. LibreOffice is so visually gross it’s pretty hard to use.
To be fair, office is also hot garbage. It's just that most people are used to that kind of hot garbage.
As someone who hasn't used office much in the last 15 years, it's nearly unusable for me. I have to Google how to do basic things because everything is confusing, ugly, and hidden(or hard to find amongst the huge number of icons).
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#99Why on startup? Windows startup is already so painfully slow, especially compared to Apple silicon machines, and adding Office to it would only compound this problem. I think this problem can be avoided, while also still helping pre-load Office, if Windows just detects when resource utilization is low and loads Office in the background then.
I don't know what is different on your system, but my Windows startup experience is that it's blazing fast. Granted, that's on a gaming rig with a decent CPU and it's Windows 10, not 11, but I don't remember having to do any custom de-shittification and it boots way faster than Linux, short enough to not really perceive the boot process as an interruption.
That's funny cuz my Linux boot up is so fast that multiple coworkers and even my girlfriend have commented on how much faster it is than their windows installs.
Linux is blazing fast when configured properly. But in reality we're talking about 2-3 seconds of difference here. How long a machine takes to POST is usually the biggest part of bootup nowadays.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#100Microsoft is too slow full stop.
When will there be a viable alternative that runs industry standard software?