turn it off and on again

[donavannj]

Speed: 4.39 GHz
Ram: 1GB
HDD Space: 200GB

BTW, When I boot my laptop it said change Laptop Charger for better performance. The problem is, my charger is working great. *.*

All that machine really needs is more RAM, though laptop RAM can be very expensive depending on the laptop you have.

I run xp on my daily workstation still and have no issues.. unlike new OS's where it likes to break things and sometimes not work well with some devices its been using for yrs..

Quality MS products.
sigh

... I ran into those problems all the time on XP. I run into them all the time on 7, too, but that's because I support 175 to 200 machines that run it, and the majority of those are refurbs that are coming up on 3 years since we bought them. The problems you describe are definitely not new to the new Microsoft OSes.

That said, 7 has generally been far more stable than XP based on end-user experiences at my employer.

 

[killer-curry]

Actually, you can boot the computer fast enough less than even 2 minutes for these days. Depends on the hardisk speed, and the processor speed too, booting time may affected by these two major factors. But, if you have lot of programs in boot queue it is another story then.

Well, for Windows 10 I dun know what's going on, the booting time really slow and most of the time it is mostly from system processing. With less booting programs, still very time consuming so I just make them sleep just in case. It still consume power but least it does not need to go so slow booting at very seconds.

 

[Tsutarja]

Well shit, the AC adapter for my router decided to stop working, and now I have no internet at home. :|

Hoping that Frontier has a replacement at their in-person store across town.

 

[donavannj]

I bet they'll charge you $20 for a new one if they even do have it in stock.

7 is definitely much more stable and far less glitchy for sure. I used XP at school for many years on a network and it was incredibly slow and convoluted to use. There were days where logging in took over 15 minutes. It was painful, to say the least.

Speaking of XP, I decided to set myself up a VM for it and my oh my what a blast from the past. I almost forgot how XP actually worked.

Those login issues on a domain don't exactly go away with 7 because group policy is always a hot mess for logins, but it's still a lot better about it than XP machine were on the exact same network infrastructure.

Actually, you can boot the computer fast enough less than even 2 minutes for these days. Depends on the hardisk speed, and the processor speed too, booting time may affected by these two major factors. But, if you have lot of programs in boot queue it is another story then.

Well, for Windows 10 I dun know what's going on, the booting time really slow and most of the time it is mostly from system processing. With less booting programs, still very time consuming so I just make them sleep just in case. It still consume power but least it does not need to go so slow booting at very seconds.

Domain logins are slow as molasses because of group policy.

Windows 10 will need some refinement yet. Like all its predecessors, it probably got released too early.

My Surface at work takes a few minutes to login when on our domain, but logs in nearly instantly when not on our domain, which tells me that my issues are with Group Policy membership (probably trying to pull it down from a completely different site than the one I'm located at because Group Policy is a dumb hot mess like that). Boot time without logging in is something like 15 seconds.

 

[Tsutarja]

I bet they'll charge you $20 for a new one if they even do have it in stock.

Turns out they don't stock equipment in their stores anymore, so I'm now on hold waiting for somebody to pick up and respond and have a new one shipped.

 

[donavannj]

They probably stopped stocking it in their stores to cut costs on insurance expenditures for each store. It's cheaper and easier to secure a handful of warehouses than it is to secure several hundred small stores.

 

[Impo]

My new macbook arrived today!

Very excited to start using it, but I bet I will be used to the normal windows shortcuts for a while hehe

 

[Tsutarja]

I could have sworn that customization like that (such ad desktop background for each user and also cursor style) could be saved by the active directory domain, especially in Windows 7. I guess I'd have to play around with that myself to confirm whether or not that's the case.

 

[donavannj]

Well, when the school district installed 7 on all computers on their second try (The first attempt was a mass network install which failed horribly and rendered a portion of computers totally unbootable...) it was a drastic improvement. However, with those improvements also came some issues. Customizations were able to be saved on a per-user basis on the XP computers, and whatever computer you logged into you'd have your background and mouse modifications. On the 7 computers, the cusomizations were saved to each computer locally, so if you had a background on one computer, you'd have to log into that same computer, or else you'd be presented with the default background and settings. Saving your customizations as a theme pack on the desktop helped to mitigate that issue though.

Technically, that first way is supposed to be the easiest and fastest way, but those often don't quite go as planned, especially when doing the whole network at once (better off just subnetting and targeting a specific subnet to reduce the strain on the network for each set of computers).

At my workplace we just image on a per-computer basis, though. Usually from a portable hard drive that contains a copy of our base image using a flash drive that contains our imaging software.

I could have sworn that customization like that (such ad desktop background for each user and also cursor style) could be saved by the active directory domain, especially in Windows 7. I guess I'd have to play around with that myself to confirm whether or not that's the case.

It's not the default domain behavior out of the box, I can say that with certainty. It may be possible, but it's not a priority at most places. Not a priority at my workplace since it's a 30 second process that the user can set on their own after they log in.

 

[Legendary Silke]

So I've checked out a 75W GTX 950 review on TechPowerUp, and one thing caught my eye.

Something is up with AMD video cards and playing high-quality video. They're taking a lot of power to render video... worse thing, it appears the more powerful the AMD hardware, the worse it gets.

Are they bogged down by hardware?

 

[Tsutarja]

So I have good news! The tech came out today, and now we have an 802.11b/g/n router! Our previous one was only 802.11b/g, so that's pretty neat :)

Also, the device has IPv6 support!

 

[Legendary Silke]

So I have good news! The tech came out today, and now we have an 802.11b/g/n router! Our previous one was only 802.11b/g, so that's pretty neat :)

Also, the device has IPv6 support!

Free hardware upgrades are the best. Is it capable of MIMO?

I'm thinking that I have probably bought too much video card back then lately, the 970 seems to just coast on every single game I have in my libraries. Though, it's probably because I don't have anything recent enough...

 

[donavannj]

So I've checked out a 75W GTX 950 review on TechPowerUp, and one thing caught my eye.

Something is up with AMD video cards and playing high-quality video. They're taking a lot of power to render video... worse thing, it appears the more powerful the AMD hardware, the worse it gets.

Are they bogged down by hardware?

AMD got set back quite a bit when they bought ATI as well as for various other reasons, so they're kind of playing catchup to their direct competitors in each field in terms of power consumption relative to capabilities.

So I have good news! The tech came out today, and now we have an 802.11b/g/n router! Our previous one was only 802.11b/g, so that's pretty neat :)

Also, the device has IPv6 support!

I'm surprised your previous device was only b/g, really. N has been around commercially since around 2010.

 

[Tsutarja]

I'm surprised your previous device was only b/g, really. N has been around commercially since around 2010.

The device Verizon handed us back in 2010 was manufactured in 2008, the year before 802.11n was published. I guess it might have been their newest device at the time, especially considering how slow Verizon is to implementing things.

(of course we're on Frontier now that Verizon sold their territory in Florida/Texas/California)

 

[donavannj]

Yeah. I'm not sure what had happened in its entirety, but they managed to get the issues fixed over that summer break. I do agree that subnetting would have been a better idea though, I can imagine the strain on the network it would cause by making over 2000 computers update to Windows 7 in the span of a weekend.

Imaging is probably the easiest method though. If the computer is configured for a network boot, they can just change what it boots to and make it start up to a flashing utility that downloads the image and flashes it to the computer's hard drive. It probably would have gone a lot better.

I would definitely be tempted to try imaging via a network if I had to try to update that many in a single weekend.

The device Verizon handed us back in 2010 was manufactured in 2008, the year before 802.11n was published. I guess it might have been their newest device at the time, especially considering how slow Verizon is to implementing things.

(of course we're on Frontier now that Verizon sold their territory in Florida/Texas/California)

I wonder if that's a common practice among the big ISPs to use slightly older gear. Ours has always been quite current gear, though.

 

[Tsutarja]

I wonder if that's a common practice among the big ISPs to use slightly older gear. Ours has always been quite current gear, though.

Are you under one of the big ISPs or a smaller/more local one?

I would at least hope my ISP rolls out IPv6 soon. Then again, my college just recently upgraded their network and even that's still IPv4 only.

 

[donavannj]

Are you under one of the big ISPs or a smaller/more local one?

I would at least hope my ISP rolls out IPv6 soon. Then again, my college just recently upgraded their network and even that's still IPv4 only.

Mediacom and CenturyLink were our last 2 providers, Mediacom being drastically smaller than CenturyLink. CenturyLink offered us a device with built-in WiFi when we switched in 2010, but we declined because we had one of our own and also opted to use our own modem. Our connections have been better from Mediacom even though our connection uses coax to the house for the last leg.

Imaging via network would have definitely been the easiest method for sure. I'm not sure what they did initially, but I think it would have run the full installer instead. I personally would have done it another way though, but the school district here is still many years behind in technology. We only switched over to Windows XP computers in Spring of 2007 from iMac G3s running Mac OS 9.2.2. I'm amazed that the transition from XP to 7 wasn't as bad as it was.

School districts tend to be slow to upgrade because the money's often not always there. My school district upgraded all their Windows machines from the hodgepodge of Windows 2k and Windows 98 machines that they were to a standardized set of XP machines in 2006. Most of those were at the high school, though. I think the elementary and middle schools stuck with the iMacs (and whatever's succeeded them in Apple's product lines) that they have had for years since it's harder for kids to screw up the network from something running Mac OS X.

 

[killer-curry]

I have been thinking budget PC for mediocre gaming performance, there are pretty good hardware that can be combined into like less than RM 2000 ( 600 dollar estimated ).

Parts can be second hand, but care what you buy online because cheap things does not guarantee good.

Spoiler:

Processor: Intel Core i5 750 2.67Ghz - OCable to 3.6Ghz ( $144 - factory ) ( $44 - used )
Motherboard: ASUS P7P55D-E LX ( $130 - factory ) ( $110 - used )
GPU: GTX 760 MSI version ( $300 - factory ) ( $129 - used )
RAM : Kingston Value DDR3 -1333 RAM 4GB x 2 ( $36 -factory ) ( $20 - used )
Power Supply: Coolmax I-500 (500W) ( $24 - factory )
Internal HDD: WD WD10EZEX 1TB ( $54 - factory ) ( $39 - used )
CPU fan: Cooler Master Hyper T4 ( $23 - factory )
DVD writer: Samsung 24x SATA DVD+RW DVD-Writer Internal Optical Drive ($18-factory)

Keyboard and mouse for another estimated price $30

Monitor for another estimated price for $50

Total for used hardware: $487 Factory hardware: $809

NOTE : The price displayed is NOT accurate, as price may change over period of time. Besides, due to old models not every hardware are still available in market.

 

[killer-curry]

I also thought about that, but max memory speed is 1333Mhz, and my computer is using 600mHz , having issue when playing some open world games, ( GTA 4&5 )

 

[killer-curry]

Hardisk jammed frequently,but in gra5 the graphics are more fluent using Radeon 6670 HD, gta 4 isn't that gd though.