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[Carl Ewing]

6 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

I think you missed my earlier post where I said:

I'm not objecting to installer/manager apps (when they do their job well). I would HATE, for instance, to have to either run installers or unZIP and copy the over 100 MeldaProduction plugins or even the 40 or so Kilohearts plugins I own, and that's not even considering authorizing all of them.

What I don't want, and don't see the need for, is plug-in installers that install constantly running services along with the plug-ins. I haven't run into any yet, but if I found a plug-in that wouldn't function without its company's service running, I'd uninstall it/them immediately. If by some chance I had paid for it, I'd demand that I be allowed to surrender the license and get a refund.

Ah yes - totally agree. Surprisingly, the only one that is always visibly running on my system is UA Connect. I guess iLok, but I only use the USB key (easier swapping between multiple systems).  And there's probably background services running for Waves, NI, etc. that I don't notice. Luckily, there are very few companies trying to force always-on processes / tray icons. However - I've never tried to run offline - curious how much stuff would break.

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53 minutes ago, Carl Ewing said:

Ah yes - totally agree. Surprisingly, the only one that is always visibly running on my system is UA Connect. I guess iLok, but I only use the USB key (easier swapping between multiple systems).  And there's probably background services running for Waves, NI, etc. that I don't notice. Luckily, there are very few companies trying to force always-on processes / tray icons. However - I've never tried to run offline - curious how much stuff would break.

 You would be surprised.  

Many of them don't use any resources.   

When offline sometimes iLoks gives you a message and for it to go away just take out the dongle and put it back in.