XPS Viewer is able to view the XPS documents. I commonly print to XPS instead of paper so I have a digital copy.
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XPS Viewer is able to view the XPS documents. I commonly print to XPS instead of paper so I have a digital copy.
Yeah ^
The idea is for people who haven't purchased Office to still be able to view/print Excel documents. A similar piece of freebie junksoft does the same for Word documents, they tend to travel as a pair.
I hope by "disabled" you mean you've uninstalled those components entirely. Gain small performance/capacity, lose nothing (assuming you have the CABs/recovery stuff, lol).
You can get some battery gains by locking up your firewall so it's not constantly draining power into transmitting WiFi confirmations for every single damned packet it receives. The price of BlueTooth convenience is big power suck into radio signals. Wires have definite advantage, if you don't mind tripping on them.
After the mechanical HDD and radio transmissions the only big powersucking offender is the display. You can turn your brightness and response down but obviously trade off against crappy display quality. Old LCD "text-on-black" style themes/wallpapers will save some of your battery power (maybe even a lot, if your display is set at full awesomeness), but IMHO they look uglier than animal sin and aren't worth the pain.
XPS isn't for excel documents, it's a format trying to compete against PDF.
Oops, I was wrong about XPS.
Another format? Fortunately there's XPS-to-PDF converters out there.
On that note, I recommend PDF SpeedUp. There was once a time when different PDF reader softwares (like Foxit) were lightweight and speedy, but they seem to have become so bloated down with useless crap that they're no longer any better than the Adobe Reader.
I don't mind Adobe as long as it's not in MSConFig. I don't get why it thinks it needs to load at startup
Nothing loads at startup over here, nor launches processes, hides in the background, attempts to call the mothership, munches on cookies, autoupdates, autoloads components, steals cursor/mouse focus, writes data where it doesn't belong, changes system settings, or has any idea what's happening ... not unless I personally configure it first. I'm not averse to hacking and butchering whatever it takes to keep things running rakish. I'm really quite paranoid about it, actually. Intelligent manual control beats Microsoft's stupid WUA automated "superadmin" crap any day. All of my software languishes in a state of complete sensory deprivation until I decide to play with it.