Comment by skavi

2 months ago

I was thinking of this: https://www.theverge.com/news/637469/microsoft-office-speed-...

Huh, this sounds exactly like what they had been doing with the OfficeClickToRun.exe, which would update in the background and keep parts of Office preloaded so it would launch quickly.

I can't find anything explaining what differs between this, but I can find people comparing Edge's "Startup Boost" feature of the same name to the long-standing OfficeClickToRun.exe ( e.g. here https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/22778/bms-crashes-after-t... )

I haven't used Windows in three years or Office in seven so it's possible they removed OfficeClickToRun.exe since 2022 and are reintroducing it.