Journal yintercept's Journal: tfswctrl.exe 2
One of things I really dislike is that modern software companies jam pack computers with non-essentials. One of the non-essential programs that routinely gets me ticked off is tfswctrl.exe by Veritas. This program has something to do with writing to CDs. I have written to CDs about 10 times in the last three years. IMHO, anything dealing with writing to CDs should be loaded only when writing to CDs. Instead the program seems to get loaded at start up.
tfswctrl.exe routinely crashes on my machine. One out of three times I shut down, the program fails to exit.
Of course it is not just Veritas that makes my blood boil. It seems like half the software companies around install some sort of garbage at startup.
I made the mistake of installing McAfee. McAfee consumes close to a minute each start up trying to sell me more McAfee products. I really hate the direction that software vendors have chosen to follow. The products you buy all want to install at startup (when they should really install when you are wanting to run the program). Companies like McAfee overload their products with advertisements for more McAfee products.
Anyway, I had decided to try and install ie7 for kicks. For some unfathomable reason tfswctrl.exe crashed during the install. My guess is that the ie7 install must have checked to see if I had a CD. I found a page listing a few of the problems people have had with tfswctrl.
I am now wondering if I should try the IE7 install again. Grumble, grumble. Software companies are just getting worse and worse as time goes on.
tfswctrl.exe routinely crashes on my machine. One out of three times I shut down, the program fails to exit.
Of course it is not just Veritas that makes my blood boil. It seems like half the software companies around install some sort of garbage at startup.
I made the mistake of installing McAfee. McAfee consumes close to a minute each start up trying to sell me more McAfee products. I really hate the direction that software vendors have chosen to follow. The products you buy all want to install at startup (when they should really install when you are wanting to run the program). Companies like McAfee overload their products with advertisements for more McAfee products.
Anyway, I had decided to try and install ie7 for kicks. For some unfathomable reason tfswctrl.exe crashed during the install. My guess is that the ie7 install must have checked to see if I had a CD. I found a page listing a few of the problems people have had with tfswctrl.
I am now wondering if I should try the IE7 install again. Grumble, grumble. Software companies are just getting worse and worse as time goes on.
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