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don't think it will work
Oh Grasshopper! You clearly have not achieved total oneness
with the higher consciousness known as Windows Mind.
Were Microsoft to implement such recommendations and warning
messages, there would undoubtedly be a backdoor or other way
to avoid them. Microsoft itself would use it for its products,
as would other ISVs, large and small, that either discovered
the methods on their own or paid to use the privileged APIs.
Soon things would be back to where they are now. Also, given
Microsoft's history, I suspect there would be ways to cause
mischief, both benign and malicious, with the master daemon.
To be sure, the proliferation of tasks running under Windows,
the difficulty in determining which program they are
associated with, and their necessity is a Windows annoyance.
It is just one of many, like the registry, the handling of
DLLs, and the use of the Windows directory for application
files. They are all design deficiencies that, even in the
case of the NT/2000/XP branch of the Windows' software tree,
have their root in Windows 3.x. Proposals like your master
daemon are just a patch over an OS that is flawed at its
core. As the Vista stumble is aptly demonstrating, Windows
is reaching the end of natural lifetime. It will keep going,
of course, kept alive by inertia and Microsoft's continued
willingness to expend resources on it.