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In principle, it could even start executing the code up until the first point where it was dependent on something outside the image, and freeze that as a modified starting image. If the initializing code executed had no external references, it could be peeled off, once it was executed.
I doubt that it is doing that, although it would be possible.
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*lol* before a decade (and more) one complained about the dll hell.
Nowadays I have the strange feeling it became much worst...
... VS which one now?
... .NET x/y/z/core this and that, which one now?
... Nuget I changed here and there
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It merely morphed from DLL hell into NuGet hell.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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The end of DLL hell was a sales pitch. Different names these days. Same principle.
Jeremy Falcon
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I always thought a question like this is a newbish thing to ask but it’s not. To figure it out you have to know something about what Windows does internally in the first place
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dandy72 wrote: I'm looking at over 800 instances of that process
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but either way VS is bloatware now. It should not take 40GB+ or whatever it is for an IDE.
Jeremy Falcon
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i was attempting to recall a project name i worked on many years ago as a temp for a large firm . it was an on-site in-service software run on service personnel's ruggedized laptop to aid w/ on-site repair . its acronym was SPDE . i assumed/recalled the 1st three characters stood for Service Personnel Data but could not recall what the E stood for . so i described all this to ChatGBT and requested its logical guess re/ the E and Voila Bingo Presto it suggested "Entry" and "Exchange" of course Exchange! Thank You ChatGBT . btw i happened to meet one of the service personnel some years subsequent and inquired re/ SPDE he stated it was not utilized as it was a total failure apparently despite my best efforts .
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Try to format your message. Nobody is interesting to read 'one unstructured block of text'
E.g, Line brakes helps to structure a text 
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are the periods at the end of each sentence not sufficiently helpful ?
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Nope 
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the only re-format which i can recognize as perhaps not quite up to standard is not placing the sentence beginning w/ "btw ..." in a separate paragraph as it is a separate matter . btw it should be "breaks" . oops 😰 . should have placed that on a separate paragraph .
further this is merely the Lounge . also my post is not a thesis merely a quick story . you're welcome for this being on a separate paragraph per keeping w/ the highest grammatical standards for which the Lounge is known for .
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Please don't take my comment that tragic 
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Aw, the classic, "I was only kidding" defense. Is your attention span so short that you couldn't concentrate for one whole paragraph?
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BernardIE5317 wrote: he stated it was not utilized as it was a total failure apparently despite my best efforts .
I worked on a multi-million dollar project which even while it was being worked it was known it was going to be shelfware.
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I have too many of these to count.
Also the project that I got a huge bonus on for saving like 30k a month. 4 years after I left said company, program is no longer being used.
But one little stupid search utility for a college that I wrote 20 years ago. Still going strong.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I have a biological computer, my brain, which has delayed recall. When I try to pull up a piece of information, like a name or a word, it won't come to the surface.
The harder I push, the longer it takes. And then, while I am thinking about something else, it pops up. My neurologist tells me this is a natural result of growing older.
Are you over 40? Oh, why did I just ask you that? 
Ed
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Don’t worry, Eddie.
You will remember why you asked in a day or two.
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our brains are shrinking. natural process
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I thought that CHATGBT was just a more inclusive variation of LGBT.
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In the past I did not make notes how many games the pc won or not.
Just tried to fix all known issues...
My thoughts were that the programmed rules (if statements and queries) let the pc play normally good but in some special cases it makes mistakes like a beginner.
Today I added 3 or 4 code lines to track it - and to my big surprise the result is that I can be happy to win 50 ... 55 % of the games (as winning solo player or as member of the winning team).
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I have written a couple of games wherein the computer may play.
One of them has two strategies -- a "safe strategy" and an "aggressive strategy" -- I have notice that the "aggressive strategy" wins more frequently than the "safe strategy".
In the other, like Data playing Strategema, the computer will play for a draw in some cases.
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Back in the days of FidoNet when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I wrote a dice game for BBS's called Greedy* -- my friends and I called the real game either Greedy or 9-Dice -- in which a player would play against the computer opponent. I programmed it to play an average player's game in it's decision tree, and the random dice throws were calculated by the same routine for both the computer and the human.
Quite often in a game, whether with real dice or in my app, you might have to decide if you wanted to risk throwing the remaining dice and lose any points you had racked up that round or take the points and pass the dice. Kind of like Blackjack where you're sitting on 15 or 16 but the dealer is showing an ace or face card. Do you draw or call?
Anyway, that decision for the computer was also randomized, and yet I was always surprised how often the computer would be way behind, the player is close to winning (which did increase the weight of that decision toward risking it), and when it decided to go with the risk it rolls enough points to come from behind and win. I did not program it that way, though I had a few ask people me if I did.
- almost identical to a game called Farkl that you can play on Facebook--I did not write that one
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Have you set it up so you can have the computer play itself with replay of any randomized values?
That is a good way to see how tweaks in your rules will change the outcomes.
Keep each rule package as a separate, versioned component.
You can then randomize or choose which rule package is active.
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Not at the moment - will look if I can get the computer play itself with replay of randomized values.
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