Inactivity.

Well... When you live in an appartment is hard not to have neighbors... xD

and when you live on a farm it's hard to have neighbours!

So true... xD

Now, my pc is now running back to normal standards... So, I can't stop using the "family" one...

well, a normally running PC is good, unless it's windows because normal for it is slow and laggy

It had a small problem with the harddrive... I couldn't format the Data partition because somehow, windows made it extended... So I had to reset my pc to factory (again), to Windows Vista...

And, as I don't like Vista, I installed Windows 7... And that's for me a normallly running pc...

you should have said something, i knew how to fix that partition thingy.




Macs suck

I've never done anything with partitions before, never had a use for it

go suck your balls black freak

Hey calm down! XD

Mac OS and Windows are both good OSes... They give use to the hardware, and that's what they do, so lets not argue with that!

well, one could argue against windows being a good OS, what with it never working and all

pfft, games are for losers with no life

macs are for productive people with no life

Darkwing wrote:well, one could argue against windows being a good OS, what with it never working and all

Well... an OS function is to give utility to the hardware, and I think Windows does it job well... As most of the OSes do...

And, A-BIack Man... Not everyone is addicted to games... And if I had a mac, I could still play my favorite game: StarCraft 2!

well, not really. I mean windows continually downloads and runs useless programs that just make your system slower and slower. It takes forever to respond to commands. The hardware's fine, the OS isn't, they need to learn that less is more.

Well... It isn't windows who does that... It's people who download useless programs, and then hope that the OS holds it...

The only thing I've against macs is their grafics card... Somehow Apple wants the MacBook to have longuer life battery, sacrificing sometimes certain components...

But, if you want a powerfull enough pc to run heavy apps and still have a long battery life, than a MacBook is for you...

Graphics card works fine for me. The new Intel ones are quite smooth. And I'm talking about windows updates. Not stuff you download, I mean all the programs that windows downloads on its own, all of its "necessary" functions.

Actually, most of the updates you do using Windows Updates are security, performance updates, with some drivers in the middle, and sometimes, a very buggy update to check if your windows is genuine...

And if there is a newer version of IE, it updates it...

But I mean... Macs and Linux distros do the same thing...

So, you have checked your Task Manager every once in a while right? You notice how it continually runs more programs that you've never heard of after you've updated and then you do a google and find out that they're useless stuff that windows downloaded? And you can't tell me that they're security and performance enhancing stuff because I check and then I shut it off manually. At least with a Mac, you know exactly what's updating and you have the option not to update it if you want and it never reduces speed or performance

Now I'm not sure how consistently you've used Windows cause I know you bounce around OS's a fair bit, because I will admit, Windows is great in its first six months of use, but after that, it deteriorates really quickly

Darkwing wrote:So, you have checked your Task Manager every once in a while right? You notice how it continually runs more programs that you've never heard of after you've updated and then you do a google and find out that they're useless stuff that windows downloaded?

No.

Darkwing wrote: And you can't tell me that they're security and performance enhancing stuff because I check and then I shut it off manually. At least with a Mac, you know exactly what's updating and you have the option not to update it if you want and it never reduces speed or performance

You can do the same thing with Windows. Control panel > Updates (or summat) > do not automatically download updates. I know that's true, because that's what I've done. And apart from updates to Media Player and IE, it is all security or performance-enhancing.

As for the six month thing, I believe that's only going to be user-driven. You never replied to my thing about improving windows vista performance, and I wonder what you currently do.

You mean running CC cleaner and whatnot? I did that, it made it marginally better, but nothing compared to when I first bought it. Now I don't use that machine much anymore, the rest of the family does. And in our house, we keep pretty good care of our PCs. Dad's still running an Acer XP upstairs and that's been going for 7 years, but it's slow as hell and was definitely faster before, but 7 years is a good run for a PC of any make. Now what really kills a Windows is putting it on the internet. I had that Vista off of the net for 3 years and it ran OK, like I said, after 6 months it started to really slow down, but once it was put on the net, it only took a few weeks for it to get REALLY slow. But like I said, we all take good care of the computers in the house, but it still doesn't prevent Windows from slowing down after 6 months.
My Macbook on the other hand I've been using for a year and it still runs as smoothly as when I first bought it.

Speaking of StarCraft 2, I tried playing it but I need a patch I cant seem to get to... -_-

oh, here's one for ya. I while ago I installed new RAM on the Vista. It had 3GB to begin and was expandable to 8GB. SO I saw some of the correct RAM on sale and bought it. I installed it to expand it to 6 GB. However, it still only read 3GB. So fiddling around, I took out some of the original sticks and left in the new ones. Still read only 3GB. I've never been able to figure it out.

Wait, you do have ccleaner set to clear the internet cache, right?

And it's a matter of opinion. We have a 10-15 year old computer with XP on it, and it seems slow. But I think that's because expectations of computer speed have increased.

And some motherboards can only support so much RAM

Prime example of that last part, Shem, is the POS at my dads.

Ok, let me do you a little rerun about this...

Your OS... You get the basis processes:

csrss.exe
dwm.exe
explorer.exe
taskhost.exe
winlogon.exe
And the base services that activate and deactivate as needed

Grafic Card Controler:
atieclxx.exe

You then install an anti-virus:
msseces.exe (In this case I use Microsoft Security Essentials)

After that, you install an Office App, which usually, have programs that run on Windows startup.

Now a comunication platform... I use Skype and Windows Live Messenger
skype.exe
msnmsgr.exe
wlcomm.exe

Then you don't like IE, you install FF and Chrome:
firefox.exe
several chrome.exe (I have 4 right now)

I like Google Apps, so I also have:
2x GoogleDesktop.exe
GoogleQuickSearch.exe
GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe

And as you install things the list keeps growing, and growing, and growing... I already saw people with several programs they don't use at all loaded in the system tray... And then you keep asking why windows gets that heavy...

And besides, I always check the updates I must do before I install them... It's usually a user option...

@Destral... Shouldn't SC2 have a auto-patch program?

@DW... Get a 64 Bit OS! 32-Bit OSes only support up to 3 gbs...

Like I said, no internet on my own computer...having to use moms -_-

So, that's the why... I think that to play you must logon into the Battle.Net...

This matter has been resolved. Apparently it was the router that was acting up and not mom cutting it off. On that note, I have reconciled with her.

You're lying.

His mom is lying. She planned for you to think it was the router.

Destral wrote:This matter has been resolved. Apparently it was the router that was acting up and not mom cutting it off. On that note, I have reconciled with her.

How can you confuse a router for your mother? Sure, they may both be cold and unresponsive to your pleas, but that's about it.

Philly Homer wrote:You're lying.

I rarely lie. I have lots of secrets, sure, but I rarely lie.

@Shem I thought mom disconnected it. But she claimed to not have touched it. It was in fact a storm in my area that caused the router to go bizzare.

It was because I got into a fight with her that I feared that she had disconnected it.

JPB18 wrote:Ok, let me do you a little rerun about this...

Your OS... You get the basis processes:

csrss.exe
dwm.exe
explorer.exe
taskhost.exe
winlogon.exe
And the base services that activate and deactivate as needed

Grafic Card Controler:
atieclxx.exe

You then install an anti-virus:
msseces.exe (In this case I use Microsoft Security Essentials)

After that, you install an Office App, which usually, have programs that run on Windows startup.

Now a comunication platform... I use Skype and Windows Live Messenger
skype.exe
msnmsgr.exe
wlcomm.exe

Then you don't like IE, you install FF and Chrome:
firefox.exe
several chrome.exe (I have 4 right now)

I like Google Apps, so I also have:
2x GoogleDesktop.exe
GoogleQuickSearch.exe
GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe

And as you install things the list keeps growing, and growing, and growing... I already saw people with several programs they don't use at all loaded in the system tray... And then you keep asking why windows gets that heavy...

And besides, I always check the updates I must do before I install them... It's usually a user option...

@Destral... Shouldn't SC2 have a auto-patch program?

@DW... Get a 64 Bit OS! 32-Bit OSes only support up to 3 gbs...

Get a 64 bit, so why did the PC say it was expandable to 8GB if it new that it was only 32 bit?! Stupid selling tactics

Well, if it's expandable to 8GB and you had 3 but you bought 6... Hmm... Let's do this math, m'kay?

6+3 = 9

no, I bought enough to expand it to 6, I didn't buy 6GB more, I bought 3 GB

at least I think I did, it was like 10 months ago that I did it, so I don't really remember the numbers, just 6 seemed significant so I assumed that's what I expanded it to

OOOOHHHHH! Sorry, I obviously misinterpreted

Maybe you have to expand to 8 for it to work then?

well, you wouldn't think so. See if memory serves, it has 4 slots which are currently holding 2 1GB sticks and 2 512MB sticks. I think I bought 2 2GB sticks to replace the 512s with

That's really weird... Did the performance improve and it just doesn't display that it's been upgraded?

nope, stayed about the same. It's like it literally didn't read. And I made sure it was the right type of RAM, because apparently inserting the wrong RAM can cause things like smoke and fire and general PC destruction and that hasn't happened yet

Yep... For the older computers, DDR1 and DDR2, etc. That's how I busted my old laptop; upgraded with DDR2 when it was actually DDR1

-.- That thing had a lot of sentimental value. Had it for like 7 years O_o

well my PC was DDR-2 SDRAM. That's the only thing I been able to figure though. The package said DDR-2 RAM and not SDRAM, however, I looked on the net and it didn't look like there was a difference, so I dunno

Big difference. The RAM I upgraded with worked for about a month before it killed it. So if the computer still works then you are a very lucky man.

but like I said, I googled it and everything and everything i found said SDRAM and RAM were the same thing, just a fancier way of saying it. It was DDR-2 which was what was important. But they make these things more complicated than they need to be

I just pulled out the package. Apparently, I've had the 2GB sticks in for the last 10 months and took out the 512MB sticks that came with the PC, so it's been running fine for the last 10 months with these 2GB sticks in it, though it still reads 3GB

I already told you! You have a 32-Bit OS! 32-Bit only reads up to 3.2... gb's of RAM, but Windows round it up to 3 Gb's...

However, a 64-bit OS would read up (in theory) up to 128 Gb's of RAM!

Stupid windows

There are 64-bit Windows... For example, my laptop reads all its 4 Gb... And my motherboard allows to go up to 8 Gb's...

Oh, and remember also! Home Premium edition of Windows 64-bit reads only up to 8 Gb's... But Ultimate and Business reads up to 128 Gb's

so, home premium 32bit requires like 2GB to run windows alone, how much does the 64bit need? Because if I had say 8GB in there but the 64bit needs like 6 GB to run windows alone, it's not much of an improvement