I wish they'd learn to spell "analysis" but that aside, why do you ask MS for these figures?
I had no idea until reading your post that Microsoft even offers them. There is no hint on my PC (with WIN-10) of this service, so is it something you can ferret out from some obscure corner of the computer management menus?
Inquisitive, I did some sums on what MS with its usual lack of literacy, calls "Insights", having enlarged the display slightly to legibility.
Number of hours in 1 week: 24 X 7 = 127
Number of hours listed: about 767, with some rounding.
Number of hours by instrument ("screen time"): 159.7 + 44.3 = 203, rounded.
Errr. eh?
Six times as many computer hours than calendar hours, in one week? Two hundred hours by instrument time but nearly 800 by use?
How does it all work? What is MS really telling you - if anything?
All your own time with the thing on-line, or is this a family computer used by all and sundry in the Neighflowers household?
"Productivity" - Does that mean that all the rest of your use is non-productive? Is it for things like spreadsheet and word-processing?
"Other" - including all this hours counting?
Still, Microsoft does admit its recording is still under development, (
... while we're learning to make activity reporting even better.
Better than what? That use, common in advertising, means absolutely nothing.
''' Well, I don't have this Mickeysoft "activity" and "analytics" [sic] rhubarb on my computer and I am glad I don't! :-)
@NeighFlowers I could be less kind but my comment was linguistic rather than specifically Microsoft, although they certainly like to keep abusing the language and wanting us to copy them.
MS is not all bad, technically, but could do better, concentrating more on purpose than picture.
My more serious beef with the firm is its business methods, such as only just now when I switched the computer on. MS told me it was going to "upgrade" it to W11 with my choice being limited to when, not whether I want or need it. Though for free... it says.
I have had very bad experiences "upgrading" the OS in the past, with it automatically deleting all my web-site registrations and accounts, the "Bookmarks" index, and I think e-mail addresses too. So giving me an evening wasted on rebuilding it - there was no excuse for MS to have done that. That was before rooting out some of the auxiliaries - or gimmicks - I neither want nor need, too, like Cortana and I think even some games.
It would not be so bad if you can actually contact the company for help, but like so many other big firms now, MS hides everything except Sales behind impenetrable web-walls.
. A former employer's Intranet had a social forum whose regulars usually called µS, "Mickeysoft"! (Though to be fair, other companies were also given derogatory nick-names: the car-accessory chain is not really called "Halfrauds".) It is also MS Windows that is often meant when people talk of "bloatware", the "upgrades" merely adding more and more "packaging" and changing the screen arrangement and tools around, for the same tasks.
My work often involved plotting polar graphs (MS calls them "Radar Charts", perhaps by brand-name) in 'Excel' and I hope Mr. Gates' ears were red-hot with my comments on how bad these plots' template and editing tools were. Although "Bubble Charts" and "Cone Charts" were mere gimmicks for the PowerPoint Presentation People; the Cartesian, column and bar graphs routines were very good for serious use. I even found I could create an unexpected column graph form very useful in one certain application. Yet whoever had written the polar routine had been very slapdash, and even made the 0º and 360º radials as two separate ones.
Some things MS has done are good: its closing-down prompt if you still have something open is better than in past editions, for example. As is the Pictures indexing system, enhanced by thumbnails. Yet it also, for example, removed alphabetical sorting from the Bookmarks index.
. Perhaps what that activity-tracking shows is just how much power-hungry work the computer is doing. I do have so-called "smart" gas and electric meters, and it might be interesting, or worrying, to compare the electrical Watts my home is using, with the PC on and off. I do not know what are Discord and OBS, but they seem very greedy applications.
@ArishMell I mean, OBS is a little processor heavy when actively streaming, but that's because of what itbtakes to actually stream in 1080p at 60fps while running a game on my, slightly dated, hardware.
Discord is a mass communication app relevent in the PC gaming sphere that allows you to have multiple servers/groups and do everything from text/voice communication to screen and image sharing. So they have their purposes. lol It's just easier for me to keep them open 24/7 rather than to close them and open every time I'm working on my stream set up in OBS or responding to DMs or group posts in Discord.
@NeighFlowers I see.Thankyou for explaining it. I don't play computer games so am not familiar with their technical needs, but I do know they are very demanding of processing and memory power.
