Like most people, I use Windows. Like most people, I will install a new version of windows and watch, over the months, as it slows down. Slower and slower.
There are two reasons for this. 1) Windows never really lets you know what's running in the background and 2) Windows has alway been really bad at shutting down processes in the background.
Steve Wiseman lets us know that there is at least a solution to #2. You'll notice #2 the most when you go to shut off your computer and it takes a good ten minutes to shut off. Microsoft now has a downloadable widget that cleans up programs that haven't quite shut down.
As for problem #1, I think that's just part of the joy of Windows. #1 also gets you on the other end - where it takes a long time to boot up. The reason for this is, usually, that there are a lot of processes that are running at startup and Windows no longer has an adequate way to track all of them.
Long ago, those started in the autoexec.bat, then later either in the autoexec.bat and the startup folder, and since then they've devised all sorts of ways for programs to start at startup in a non-obvious way.
So, we got the backend solved .. now we just have to get the frontend.
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