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Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

An operating system should never call home what apps the user has or what the user is doing. That's an extreme invasion of privacy.

Why do people still use this? Everyone should immediately take a Linux course and stop being suckers.

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

I don’t think it calls home about that. It just looks if there are any „incompatible“ applications installed and blocks the update if it finds any. I guess the goal is to not break anything.

But sure, you can spin it into a “fuck Microsoft” narrative.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ConisioAdmin.exe (Solidworks PDM)

EaseUS Disk Copy.exe (EaseUS Disk Copy Application)

ep_dwm.exe (ExplorerPatcher) Included since 22H2

iCloudServices.exe (iCloud files shared in Explorer via WhatsApp) from 23H2

RadeonSoftware.exe (AMD GPU perf settings) from23H2

StartAllBackCfg.exe (StartAllBack) Included since 22H2

Multi-mon + Copilot (Microsoft)

MergeSdb (Microsoft)

Intel IntcOED.sys (Intel)

Intel IntcAudioBus.sys (Intel) (%WinDir%\System32\drivers\IntcAudioBus.sys)

Realtek 8192su Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter (Realtek) (%WinDir%\System32\drivers\RTL8192su.sys)

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Is any of those free, small and not invasive so I can install it just to prevent an update to Winshit 11?

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The iCloud thing is free. I think it adds a system tray application but I don’t think it does anything if you don’t log in with an Apple account.

The Realtek Wireless driver should also do nothing if you don’t have the device.