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Buy something cheap with an SSD. It'll be way faster than what you have. You could even look into buying a used business laptop, those tend to go for cheap as well. Just don't buy something that still has a regular mechanical hard drive.
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Fame Douglas posted:Buy something cheap with an SSD. It'll be way faster than what you have. You could even look into buying a used business laptop, those tend to go for cheap as well. Just don't buy something that still has a regular mechanical hard drive. Or if you do get something with a mechanical drive (because it was a good deal) factor in $50 for an SSD. It really just depends on your budget.
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Jul 20, 2020 00:11
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#1 priority should be a backup solution of any kind, because 'I can't wipe the disk because it's got my files on it' is just an unnecessarily terrible place to be.
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Future Son posted:So my pc is >10years old and still runs on Windows XP. Almost no software runs on it anymore since the world has abandoned my OS, and it has gotten too slow even for opening websites. I don’t think anything is mechanically wrong, but maybe something is dying. Yeah, as you've surmised you need to (a) backup your files, (b) flatten and install something that isn't horribly insecure, and (c) do not run any executables from your backup ever because that computer quite possibly hasn't belonged just to you for a while now. Reasonable upgrades for your >10 year old PC include buying a cheap SSD instead of whatever old hard drive, seeing if someone has some old RAM you could use, and upgrading your video card. What kind of processor does it have? At that point you could probably buy a new or maybe used computer that's much better than what you have for pretty cheap.
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If there's any alternative, I wouldn't put a cent into upgrading a computer that old. Even the cheapest PCs on the market today are going to be a significant improvement over that thing, upgrades notwithstanding.
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Guitarchitect posted:what's the best benchmarking software nowadays? i manage the purchasing for an arch firm of around 90 people and i'm looking to see how photoshop, illustrator, revit, autocad, etc will perform on some new and existing machines (Lenovo computers, Surface Pro computers, etc). There's only so much i can glean from online reviews (they don't often compare the systems I'm comparing) and only so many personal tests I can do. Check out what Linus Tech Tips use to benchmark. They do games as well, but I'm fairly certain they use Cinebench, 3dmark and some form of Blender test file. the_lion fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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Jul 20, 2020 01:14
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Jul 20, 2020 01:19
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Toast Museum posted:If there's any alternative, I wouldn't put a cent into upgrading a computer that old. Even the cheapest PCs on the market today are going to be a significant improvement over that thing, upgrades notwithstanding. You can buy off lease Dells for around $120 that include a quad core processor, 8gb of ram and a 256gb SSD. One of these systems would be light years ahead of whatever system you have now AND be much more secure. Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/233528220736
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the_lion posted:Check out what Linus Tech Tips use to benchmark. They do games as well, but I'm fairly certain they use Cinebench, 3dmark and some form of Blender test file. Might also be worth looking at Puget Systems’ benchmarks if those are still a thing.
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Jul 20, 2020 06:37
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If I want a windows without crapware like Cortana but I'm OK with being on the bleeding-edge for stuff like WSL2, can I install Windows 10 LTSC and then enable the Insiders channel, even though it looks like a contradiction on its face?
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Jul 23, 2020 14:08
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Is it worth it to get pay for the premium versions of either MalwareBytes or BitDefender? Other than the fact that it'd prevent MB from popping up annoying ads on my task bar...
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Jul 23, 2020 14:14
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Johnny Truant posted:Is it worth it to get pay for the premium versions of either MalwareBytes or BitDefender? Other than the fact that it'd prevent MB from popping up annoying ads on my task bar... No. Windows Defender is as good a virus & malware protection as you should normally need. VVV edit: "snake oil" is overly harsh, they just aren't any better than Defender. stuff like cccleaner and other "clean your registry" stuff is snake oil. Klyith fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Jul 23, 2020 |
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Johnny Truant posted:Is it worth it to get pay for the premium versions of either MalwareBytes or BitDefender? Other than the fact that it'd prevent MB from popping up annoying ads on my task bar... Third party antivirus is snake oil at best and actively harmful to your security at worst, you shouldn't be using any version of that software. Modern Windows has all the security it needs built right in. Keep your OS and software up to date; and have a good quality ad blocker installed.
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Klyith posted:No. Windows Defender is as good a virus & malware protection as you should normally need. The Lord Bude posted:Third party antivirus is snake oil at best and actively harmful to your security at worst, you shouldn't be using any version of that software. Modern Windows has all the security it needs built right in. Keep your OS and software up to date; and have a good quality ad blocker installed.  Didn't know that at all, thanks! Gonna uninstall it now.
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Jul 23, 2020 14:29
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They backported the new Edge to Windows 8.1, this is neat.
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Jul 23, 2020 14:33
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And Windows 7 too, oddly? Probably a hail mary to gain marketshare even on an unsupported OS (that they know people prefer over 10 still after all these years lol)
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Jul 23, 2020 14:34
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Flipperwaldt posted:They backported the new Edge to Windows 8.1, this is neat. 
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Jul 23, 2020 14:35
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lol I lasted 45 min with edge. It imported all my tabs and stuff from chrome (cool). Used it for a bit and it seemed nice enough. Closed edge. Opened edge and all my tabs were gone lol. Back to chrome it is.
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Jul 23, 2020 15:08
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Microsoft has trouble with the "retain user settings" thing across the board, I think they figure their users flatten and reinstall so often that clearing out sessions or other config settings isn't really a big deal.
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Last Chance posted:Microsoft has trouble with the "retain user settings" thing across the board, I think they figure their users flatten and reinstall so often that clearing out sessions or other config settings isn't really a big deal. Spoilers! It is a big deal
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Jul 23, 2020 15:20
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How about the silly poo poo it does when dragging windows between two monitors with different resolutions? 
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Jul 23, 2020 15:27
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xzzy posted:How about the silly poo poo it does when dragging windows between two monitors with different resolutions? I'm still irritated that if I pick a different resolution in a game it fucks my desktop and windows up after I exit the game.
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Jul 23, 2020 15:31
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xzzy posted:How about the silly poo poo it does when dragging windows between two monitors with different resolutions? I've never had any problem with this, are your monitors set to different % scaling? Windows is still quite crap at DPI scaling so I could see that being crazy.
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Klyith posted:I've never had any problem with this, are your monitors set to different % scaling? Windows is still quite crap at DPI scaling so I could see that being crazy. No, same scale. But the second monitor is significantly smaller (4k vs 1080). I actually just hosed around with it for 10 minutes to try and figure out the specifics and it doesn't happen every time, but it can be triggered pretty reliably. Take a window from the large monitor and drag it to the small screen and full-screen it by putting the mouse at the top edge. Next time you drag that window anywhere it will be sized to about 95% the size of the smaller screen. Next, with the same window make it some large size on the large monitor. Drag it to the middle of the small monitor, let go the mouse, then click again and drag it to the top edge. Now it will remember the old size when you drag it off full screen. So I guess what I thought was random resizing of my windows was just me sometimes moving a window around differently than other times.
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MarcusSA posted:Spoilers! Oh, for sure. I imagine even after 2004 is out of beta testing, some settings will still get cleared out upon installing it.
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I've been using chromium edge for a pretty long time now and I've never encountered a problem with it.
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The Lord Bude posted:I've been using chromium edge for a pretty long time now and I've never encountered a problem with it. What is the difference between that and Microsoft Edge? Or is that the same thing?
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The Lord Bude posted:I've been using chromium edge for a pretty long time now and I've never encountered a problem with it. Same. New Edge is really good. The "don't reopen my tabs" setting is part of Chromium. I.e. That part works the same as on Chrome. I don't mean bmto be negative, but could it have been user error? Or were you referring to open tabs sync across devices? If so, that feature doesn't exist yet (though it's on the roadmap). I could understand why that would be a feature you can't work without.
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MarcusSA posted:What is the difference between that and Microsoft Edge? Or is that the same thing? Microsoft edge used to be a browser built from the ground up by Microsoft; until they decided to scrap it and build a new browser based on chromium (most browsers other than Firefox and safari are based on chromium - google chrome is chromium + google stuff; the new edge is chromium + Microsoft stuff instead). If you have the newest version of Windows 10 you should have the new edge.
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Ynglaur posted:Same. New Edge is really good. The "don't reopen my tabs" setting is part of Chromium. I.e. That part works the same as on Chrome. I don't mean bmto be negative, but could it have been user error? Na I had to go in and change the settings to reopen all the tabs when closed. It was automatically set to open a new tab. The Lord Bude posted:Microsoft edge used to be a browser built from the ground up by Microsoft; until they decided to scrap it and build a new browser based on chromium (most browsers other than Firefox and safari are based on chromium - google chrome is chromium + google stuff; the new edge is chromium + Microsoft stuff instead). If you have the newest version of Windows 10 you should have the new edge. Ah ok got it. I'm gonna give it a shot and see how it runs.
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That was a sincere statement in the first place!
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NihilCredo posted:If I want a windows without crapware like Cortana but I'm OK with being on the bleeding-edge for stuff like WSL2, can I install Windows 10 LTSC and then enable the Insiders channel, even though it looks like a contradiction on its face?
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Is there some system monitoring tool for windows that isn't as ungodly complex as grafana but still has a web interface? I just want a way to see a cpu load and core temperature graph in a web browser instead of having to remote into the system.
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I've had some strange behaviour with language packs disappearing and reappearing on windows 10. I use several, because I write in two languages and while my keys fit my native language, it's sometimes useful to have the keyboard set to an english set-up even if it doesn't match the keys. US english (US keyboard) vanished from the settings yesterday and it wasn't available for installation from language settings either. I installed UK english and keyboard instead. Today, US is suddenly back. This is kinda loving with my workflow since I have to switch languages on the go in class.
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OK this is driving me up a wall and I can't figure out how its happening or even why! My PC is pretty much on 24/7 but somehow windows is losing time! Like right now its about 55 seconds off the correct time and before I manually had to sync it the time was off by a good 5 min. This is what the time settings is showing.  Obviously if I sync it the time goes back to the correct time but shouldn't it be doing that automatically? How am I losing time???
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Replace the battery on your motherboard.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Replace the battery on your motherboard. Well yeah I thought that but the computer is like never off. Also windows doesn't seem to be syncing the time like it should.
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repiv posted:Did you disable HPET? I don't know what that is so I'm gonna guess I did not. Edit: Looking at the device manager HPET is enabled. MarcusSA fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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