I recently updated my three Win7-64 machines (with the Aero theme enabled and transparency on) to this version. No such problems so far.

Don't really like that new theme they went with with this version, though... oh well.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Is anyone having issues with the latest version of Chrome (or Groan, as I call it) 69.0.3497.81 with the Windows Themes Manager service disabling constantly, or is this another issue?

Service is actually disabled? Or just stopped? Anything in the event viewer?

It goes to disabled mode and nothing in event viewer that I can see.

To disable a service requires admin rights, so it's odd that a browser (which shouldn't need admin rights) is taking them and using them. And if you have UAC completely disabled and use an admin account 24/7, well, that's pure folly.

If your own account is an admin, what happens if you create a new user, make sure it is ONLY in the Users group, and then run Chrome there?

I won't use Chrome. Or Win 10.

I'm currently working on moving to Linux (on my dual Xeon system when I get it built), and DOS 6.22 / WFW 3.11 for as much as possible, and may set up a Win98 based Pentium system for specific software.

To disable a service requires admin rights, so it's odd that a browser (which shouldn't need admin rights) is taking them and using them. And if you have UAC completely disabled and use an admin account 24/7, well, that's pure folly.

Not disputing, but I'm trying to figure out why it's pure folly to use an admin account 24/7 on a Windows system, if you're the only user of the system?

Hamby wrote:

Not disputing, but I'm trying to figure out why it's pure folly to use an admin account 24/7 on a Windows system, if you're the only user of the system?

Because any code you run, intentionally or not, also 'uses' the system. If you have unrestricted rights to the machine, so does whatever program you just ran.

On my home machine I have a standard account, an admin account with a different password, and UAC set to the next-from-lowest option (one above the "never notify"), so if whatever I run needs to elevate I'll be prompted to enter the other account's password. At work, my domain account is a standard user, and I have a local admin account with a strong password. Same settings on that, so if I must elevate I use an account that is unknown to the domain so if something steals it it won't be able to do anything with it but stuff on my machine.