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- Did they not look up the PC manufacturer or model number to verify this hypothesis?by cosmotic
- For all the hard work they did with driver updates, actual driver management still sucks very badly. Simple concepts such as pinning a driver, something that could be a checkbox, requires edits to the registry or group policy: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/146562-prevent-windows-u...by 1970-01-01
- Why has the tray icons still existing despite process being killed bug gone unfixed for decades?
Microsoft does not care or extremely sucks at quality assurance.
by zelphirkalt - My guess: technical debt makes fixing it impossible. I can’t believe many Microsoft developers didn’t try to fix it.by e40
- This is a bug of the application and not of windows.
It's maybe a bad API design, but in the end every app developer can fix it for their apps.
by 0x073 - I'm guessing its some ipc that only adds or removes entries, but when you mouseover it sends a signal to the killed process, realizes its gone, and only then deletes the icon from the systray...by nubinetwork