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Ruff_Hi Wrote:That is what I am talking about ... hacks such as ...?
Google around for setting up a boot drive. There are a few options. Here are the major ones:
* Move your Users and Program File folders off to another drive. You can Google how to change the "library" location for Windows 7 pretty easily. Moving Program Files requires some weird hacking when I did it (Windows doesn't "support" doing this hack).
* Do registry edits to make the default locations for program files in your new drive. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/6643-6...mal#t39911
* Also you can make "symbolic" links to the new folders so when stupid silly hardcoded programs try to install to your C: drive they get linked to you new folders.
Here's a pretty comprehensive guide
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Ruff_Hi Wrote:I've disabled all add-ons and extensions to see if that is the problem. BTW - FF loads soooo much quicker with the add-ons disabled. Still running ok overnight.
sunrise089 Wrote:Your new PC will be here soon, right? Yep. IBP has been sending me emails updating me on the build. It is small wonder that they don't install a webcam so that I can watch it being built  . Quote:If so maybe wait until then, migrate, and then reformat the old PC how you want to at that point.
Not sure what to do with old PC. Might just cannibalize it for parts - if I do that, my new PC will end up with 3 x 1TB drives. Still thinking about how to utilize that much space.
Bobchillingworth Wrote:Use Chrome I was thinking of that. Seems like a good time to try it.
spellman Wrote:Google around for setting up a boot drive. I found this site that talks about it. You should see how he has partitioned his drives. I emailed him about his thoughts on a SSD and he said that win usually boots up / programs load super quick. He didn't say why but I am thinking that his partitioning means he doesn't run into much file fragmentation.
I have finally decided to put down some cash and register a website. It is www.ruffhi.com. Now I remain free to move the hosting options without having to change the name of the site.
(October 22nd, 2014, 10:52)Caledorn Wrote: And ruff is officially banned from playing in my games as a reward for ruining my big surprise by posting silly and correct theories in the PB18 tech thread.
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Ruff_Hi Wrote:He didn't say why but I am thinking that his partitioning means he doesn't run into much file fragmentation.
With modern file systems (ie not FAT) you don't need to worry much about file fragmentation. Lots of people has lots of bad habits born of 98 and early XP experiences, that just hurt them nowadays.
(I'm just glad I mostly used Mac OS then, and never really got into those bad habits. Though I admit I had to unlearn a bunch of classic Mac OS stuff with the switch to OS X.)
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Unix file systems don't usually require defragmentation. NTFS on the other hand does though the fragmentation problem isn't too large.
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"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
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Ruff_Hi Wrote:My old pc has started to lock up ... completely stop ... screen still shows stuff but box is completely silent, mouse will not move on screen, alt-tab does nothing. It is erratic but it only happens when I have firefox open ... and typically when I am asking FF to do a lot (update a few tabs while I read or click on a different tab). Hmm - PC locked up again. FF was running but addons were still disabled. D/l and installed Chrome and it wouldn't even connect to gmail ( The site's security certificate is signed using a weak signature algorithm).
D/l and running SUPERAntiSpyware and it reports that I have some issues (known threat sources, adware cookies, securitycenteroptions disabled and a trojan.
I have finally decided to put down some cash and register a website. It is www.ruffhi.com. Now I remain free to move the hosting options without having to change the name of the site.
(October 22nd, 2014, 10:52)Caledorn Wrote: And ruff is officially banned from playing in my games as a reward for ruining my big surprise by posting silly and correct theories in the PB18 tech thread.
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Sounds like the plugin container is exploding, you might want to disable hardware acceleration for FF and Adobe Flash.
In Soviet Russia, Civilization Micros You!
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
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Ruff_Hi Wrote:I found this site that talks about it. You should see how he has partitioned his drives. I emailed him about his thoughts on a SSD and he said that win usually boots up / programs load super quick. He didn't say why but I am thinking that his partitioning means he doesn't run into much file fragmentation.
Oh yeah. Anything on your SSD is like 10x faster load times. My BIOS takes longer than Windows boots. Another friend had one large enough he installed several games on it, and was like "hah, loading times? WHAT LOADING TIMES?"
No idea why the partition. Another thing to note is slowly your OS will grow due to patches and such. I only have the OS on my SSD, and depending on the patch I've seen it use up to 35GB but now it's down to 20.8GB. Blame random Microsoft silliness.
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Ruff_Hi Wrote:HD/l and running SUPERAntiSpyware and it reports that I have some issues (known threat sources, adware cookies, securitycenteroptions disabled and a trojan. SUPERAntiSpyware quaranteed or removed the 'bad' files and I lost internet access. Hmm ... virus or internet? Internet or virus? I am (obviously) opting for internet at the moment.
Time to test out how good my generational backup approach really is by going back to a system backup that wasn't infected.
I have finally decided to put down some cash and register a website. It is www.ruffhi.com. Now I remain free to move the hosting options without having to change the name of the site.
(October 22nd, 2014, 10:52)Caledorn Wrote: And ruff is officially banned from playing in my games as a reward for ruining my big surprise by posting silly and correct theories in the PB18 tech thread.
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Just use Malwarebytes.
In Soviet Russia, Civilization Micros You!
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
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My Suite of Awesome:
Avast! Anti-Virus
Spybot
Malwarebytes
I've been told the Microsoft anti-virus is actually pretty top-notch. I personally haven't used it though.
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