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Most recent submissions by user "keff"

Registered since: June 11, 2008

-20 +7/-27 votes

Svchost.exe (Windows Update service) check for updates on every resume from sleep/connection to net, 100% CPU for long time

Submitted by keff on July 30, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

Svchost.exe is checking for updates every time I resume my laptop from sleep and it connects to internet, even several times a day. Every time it checks, there is 100% CPU load by svchost.exe, for 30 - 60s on 1.7GHz Centrino, and it checks immediately (more...)

Updates comes once a month, and usually on a same day. There is no need to check for them 400 times in a month, once in 2-3 days is ok, and pick some interval when user isn't busy. Alternatively, check more often, but Windows Update service can simply (more...)

High

Medium

Not fixed

(9 comments)

58 +76/-18 votes

Explorer doesn't load thumbnails for images that are not visible, you see them loading when scrolling up/down

Submitted by keff on June 23, 2008 to Annoyance, Usability

When you open a folder with images in explorer, and there are more thumbnails than space on screen, explorer will never load thumbnails for images below, so, when you scroll the window, you won't see thumbnails, just placeholders that load slowly.

Load thumbnails for all images (files) in a folder, it will be much more usable in scenario when I want to quickly scan through folder for a certain image.
Alternatively, load n screens ahead (n>3).

Also makes user feel better (more...)

Medium

Low

Not fixed

(18 comments)

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