First, SupportAssist isn't an "optimizer" tool, so it wouldn't matter whether you had it or not. But second, what exactly do you mean when you say "optimize the network"? What specific aspect of your network are you trying to optimize? If you're just looking for an optimizer tool, I'm sure you can find several random applications that will claim to make your network perform better. Whether they actually do that is an entirely separate question, and in my experience the overwhelming majority of applications that claim to optimize any aspect of your system's performance end up doing little to nothing in the best case and end up making things slower or broken in at least some situations in the worst case. So unless you feel you're having a specific issue with some aspect of your network and are convinced that it should be operating better, then I would leave things as they are. And if you DO feel that way, then once again more details about your setup, the issue you're seeing, etc. would be helpful.
It updates your system settings to maintain an efficient and reliable network that ensures network connectivity.
Sorry, but that's not really an answer. The vast majority of Windows users in the world are not running SupportAssist, and I don't think you can reasonably argue that those people are all suffering from an inefficient and unreliable network where connectivity is not ensured. Even the phrasing "Optimizing the network" in SupportAssist makes it sound like it's going out to other devices on the network like your router to configure it, which I don't consider plausible -- and would consider very worrisome and arguably inappropriate even if it were true. It should say something like "Optimizing your PC's network settings". But in any case, when I see vague answers like this, it makes me consider the application in question in the same vein of "optimizer" apps that are usually advertised in the forum of annoying popups with flashing text saying something like, "YOUR PC ISN'T PERFORMING AT 100%. CLICK HERE AND PAY $49.95 FOR SUPER ULTRA PC OPTIMIZER 3.0 TO FIX IT!!"
MarkFleener
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April 13th, 2019 15:00
So exactly what does Supports Assist do when it says that it's optimizing my network?
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April 13th, 2019 15:00
First, SupportAssist isn't an "optimizer" tool, so it wouldn't matter whether you had it or not. But second, what exactly do you mean when you say "optimize the network"? What specific aspect of your network are you trying to optimize? If you're just looking for an optimizer tool, I'm sure you can find several random applications that will claim to make your network perform better. Whether they actually do that is an entirely separate question, and in my experience the overwhelming majority of applications that claim to optimize any aspect of your system's performance end up doing little to nothing in the best case and end up making things slower or broken in at least some situations in the worst case. So unless you feel you're having a specific issue with some aspect of your network and are convinced that it should be operating better, then I would leave things as they are. And if you DO feel that way, then once again more details about your setup, the issue you're seeing, etc. would be helpful.
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April 13th, 2019 16:00
No idea.
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April 15th, 2019 19:00
It updates your system settings to maintain an efficient and reliable network that ensures network connectivity.
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April 15th, 2019 20:00
Sorry, but that's not really an answer. The vast majority of Windows users in the world are not running SupportAssist, and I don't think you can reasonably argue that those people are all suffering from an inefficient and unreliable network where connectivity is not ensured. Even the phrasing "Optimizing the network" in SupportAssist makes it sound like it's going out to other devices on the network like your router to configure it, which I don't consider plausible -- and would consider very worrisome and arguably inappropriate even if it were true. It should say something like "Optimizing your PC's network settings". But in any case, when I see vague answers like this, it makes me consider the application in question in the same vein of "optimizer" apps that are usually advertised in the forum of annoying popups with flashing text saying something like, "YOUR PC ISN'T PERFORMING AT 100%. CLICK HERE AND PAY $49.95 FOR SUPER ULTRA PC OPTIMIZER 3.0 TO FIX IT!!"