iMemoryHog

Since I live with path dependent apple-people, who enjoy some nice features in their little sheltered white box, I've been curious enough about this Eden to download one of their little babies, iTunes. The backdrop for this is that John has an AirPort, an Apple wireless point, to which you can send audio, and it will send it out a line out port. This is of course beatiful, though we all have to share Steve's vision, and conform, and use iTunes. It's of course what you have to use to use this function. I sometimes feel it's like they're full of brilliant ideas for handy tools, but they only make it for left handed people. I rarely find myself defending Micro$oft, but sometimes they deserve some credit (Though I'm not impatient to get Vista. I don't know if it's out of spite, but the Windows Vista site doesn't look good in Firefox).

Anyways, my first impression of iTunes was rather disappointing. The main thing that hit me was that it actually works more or less as if you only had one button, though John claims it would actually work better with a two-buttoned mouse on a Mac. Hmm. Speaking of left handed tools, using a Mac kinda makes me feel I miss some body parts. But anyways, this complaint is about iTunes. And I'm gonna stick to it. What annoys me is that for some reason feels compelled to run "iPodservice.exe" and "iTunesHelper.exe" in the background, all the time, even though I've never had an iPod connected. I can't even tell it to stop! It's lame. The memory usage is about 7 MB which doesn't sound that much, but it's a lot considering it's completely redundant. Also a fun fact: start iTunes and it instantly consumes 35 MB of memory - that is without doing anything. Start Windows Mediaplayer 10 - it's only using 9. A rare kudos to MS for that... I've actually seen someone referring to iTunes as the iMemoryHog. It goes as follows:

En eins og fyrri útgáfur af media player hafa verið súrar (allur skjárinn fór meira og minna í eh. visualizations) þá er útgáfa 10 pjúra snilld. Hef reyndar ekki prófað iTunes nýlega en útgáfurnar sem ég hef prófað ættu frekar að kallast iSlownes .. eða iMemoryHog. Wmp10 spilar reyndar ekki .ogg .. en ég er með lítið af svoleiðis dóti.

I think this fellow agrees with me. I'm not quite sure.

Anyways, a solution to this problem is as it very often is to open "regedit.exe" and and cut the weed at its roots.

At "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" you'll find all the little thingies that Windows thinks it's fun to start at boot-up. Here you can simply choose what you don't like and hit "Del". If you haven't done this before there's probably some other crap that can undergo the same treatment. Like for instance, if you have a TV card like mine, where there's a "Remote Control Manager" (whatever that is, why start at boot up), it can be best to just get rid of it. A 300kb program that constantly hogs 40 MB of memory for no reason? Someone did some sloppy programming.

Anyways, I'm not taking side in the Apple/Microsoft religion wars. I'm just a little annoyed and envious. I would like a Mac. I'm path dependent though.