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> taskbar icons for every piece of hardware What?
by rejectfinite 5y ago
> taskbar icons for every piece of hardware
What?
- aeldidi 5y agoFor example, my laptop (https://support.hp.com/ph-en/document/c07686423 https://support.hp.com/ph-en/document/c07686423 I think) has a taskbar icon for the touchpad and a taskbar icon for the AMD graphics. Neither of those things are custom parts, just default out of the factory.
- rejectfinite 5y agoYea those are the drivers :=)
- jeppester 5y agoI'm aware that Windows doesn't come with these out of the box, but they easily add up as you install drivers. On my gaming PC there are: - Two for audio (if we count the built in one and the one from the driver) - One for Bluetooth - One for fan management - One (or maybe two?) for graphics - One for driver updates. When logging in I can see these icons showing up one by one, obviously unnecessarily using resources and just cluttering the UI. Then when you click the icons they each use a different and often "loud" UI framework, some have embedded ads. Some icons you have to double click, others right click. You can close many of them, and even disable a lot of them - but not all. Overall it's just not a clean experience.