On 4/23/19, Cindy Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Knowing what type of program or programs is open each time wouldn't > hurt. Knowing specifically which ones... ok, yeah, I know... the list > could become seemingly endless. My thought process is that maybe > certain ones or combinations of certain genres/families are calling > something up that causes this. > > Knowing any personal tweaks done at installation wouldn't hurt, either..
> < blah-blah SNIPPED for brevity > tl;dr... Dear Browsers, the ability to get back control of task scheduling the autoupdate feature.. I just had a positive ending experience that showed me networking transfer rates might not be the only thing that is negatively affected by uncontrollable autoupdates. The long version.. Just had a breakthrough in my own similar deal of things freezing up A LOT and very frequently lately. Tripped over autoupdate potentially running in my browser despite conscious efforts to avoid that k/t dialup. There was no toggle switch to be found during multiple searches lately. A determined search today found SuperUser [0] with a slightly older related thread. It seems a no-brainer to stretch that out to apply to any package that has an autoupdate feature. I can't name any right now, but, on rare occasion, I've seen that feature floating around outside of the browser package family. The RUMOR is that the autoupdate executable will have been *relatively* safely disarmed if moving it or renaming it results in a message similar to.... the one I'm... so not seeing just this second *cough*: "An error occurred while checking for updates" That error message appears in places like "opera://about". Seconds after that adjustment, my system is smoking right through things.... flipping through tabs without hesitation and the cursor is responding IMMEDIATELY to the touchpad. This is right off the bat when it was previously already bogged down even this early into a new browsing session. Prior to this change, I've been having ALL KINDS of slow down issues to that point of having to hit the hardware button to shut down WAY TOO OFTEN. ** Afterthought: This still might not help with the bogged down cursor and other things that occur when some of us simply walk away from our computers for a few minutes. This find sounds like it may also be applicable to that recent thread where I caught a blip about desktop PCs, massive amount of images, and development gearing evermore toward mobile computing. That's a "boy, howdy, is it ever!" Mobile phone and tablet-type computing puts money in the hands of those who own the associated wireless services that frequently are not free. *hm* Last second observation: I just ran "free -m". HUGE chunk of my limited memory is already swamped, yet here it is still smokin' right on along. Until this second, I leaned heavy toward memory usage as the front leader for the freezing. I currently have 1GB memory and 1.66Ghz processing oomph. I took those freezes all in stride, simply dealt with it all this time because of those low numbers. Crocheting fills the time in between webpage turns. :) I figured autoupdate trashes networking speeds, yeah, but never thought about it having a notable negative effect against the rest of the operations, e.g. SLOW cursor response times. The change today was immediate and is *notable* in my usage case. SECURITY RELATED DISCLAIMER: Disorienting autoupdates in any way means that one has to consciously schedule those updates to occur during one's computing downtime. There's also the possibility that disorienting updates could lead to smoke inducing, unpredictable behaviors that could break a whole lot more than just a cursor's slow response time or the even slower CTRL+Tab/CTRL+SHIFT+Tab webpage navigation travels. Cindy :) [0] Yeah, I know, that other operating system mostly. It still worked in my usage case. https://superuser.com/questions/828009/how-to-disable-automatic-updates-in-opera PS Also just found something called "AskVG". Never heard of it before, but information from their "How to Disable or Block Auto-Update" page "felt" good. Task schedulers... that's beyond my comprehension right now. Users having control via system-wide task scheduling always sounds a whole lot more *stable* and *appropriate* versus having to wing it via functions such as "rename", "relocate", and "delete" from within a package's Developer-implemented file hierarchy. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
