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OK.
1. Cakewalk, who produce audio software, have found Windows from 8 onwards has kept improving disk throughput and recommend it for audio production.
2. Improved startup speeds.
3. Even on an update install, I found W10 took less disk space after installation.
Real, measurable improvements.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: 1. Cakewalk, who produce audio software, have found Windows from 8 onwards has kept improving disk throughput and recommend it for audio production.
That's only because delayed write is far more effective, now that everyone has multiple cores (and more developers are getting used to multi-threading).
Rob Grainger wrote: 2. Improved startup speeds.
Through the same kind of buggy, unstable caching used for hibernate. Give it a while, and start-ups will probably get worse and worse -- and, like hibernate, I imagine fast-start will be the cause of a whole bunch of new problems.
Rob Grainger wrote: 3. Even on an update install, I found W10 took less disk space after installation.
OK, I'll grant that one, but it's only because they've optimised graphics and animations a lot (not for us, but for phones -- mobile first, and all that). After the hundred-odd gig of graphical guff they added for vista, reducing it by a lot can't have been too hard -- but I certainly don't see that as a good reason to use winio; I've got way more disc space now than I ever had with Vista.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: unnecessary computer technology
GASP!
Hold him down, boys. I'm washing his mouth out with SOAP.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm washing his mouth out with SOAP
As long as it's the technological object access protocol, and not that ancient waxy stuff that's not even remotely digital or electronic.
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It's either that or I hunt around in the back of the cupboard for an old box of XML-RPC.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: XML-RPC
meh.
XML is a baby's toy to them of us what was weaned on postscript. The Castrated PS, I call it, so not only is it the wussy version of ancient tech, but it's not even as good as ancient tech.
Would you replace your autodrive, rear-view cam, GPS-enabled car for a replica horse and cart that doesn't even go as fast or as comfortably as an ancient one?
Welcome to XML.
... As in You're welcome to it; I don't want the damned annoying stuff.
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And nobody noticed it with Weight because they couldn't stand to turn it on at all? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Amazingly, weight always slips right past me, when I think of windows versions.
I wonder why that is.
More amazingly: this lappy is weight! (Not that you'd believe it if you used it -- it's astounding how much of weight you can overwrite with weven files, if you tweak the registry and the policies enough.)
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Use smaller fonts: it's amazing how much weight you can shed...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Belly belly belly belly belly
How long before I can expect results?
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Depends how fat your fingers are to start with.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Actually I saw serious problems with hibernate with Windows 7 and [especially] XP and disabled it on both.
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Yup.
I saw it as a great idea, when it came out (with '98? I don't remember) but it never worked well, so I tried it with each new "improvement" of windows, but always stopped using it in short order.
As I say, I think the main problem is timestamps -- the "blanks" in the time-frame -- but that's at least 60% assumption; I've never debugged it.
If I've guessed right, then as software (like chrome) gets more and more intrusive about user behaviour, the problem is bound to get worse, so the biggest glitches will show up there first.
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Odd that, I'm still using W7 at work, and that has a persistent problem that causes it to reboot in the middle of a hibernate/sleep cycle, or even when the PC is locked. It's persisted even after the system was rebuilt. On a Dell desktop system.
Bit of a pain, as it limits my capability to work from home as I keep having to dial in to tell someone to wake my PC every time I have a break.
Pretty sure I've seen similar issues (or worse) on most prior versions of Windows, but (apart from an issue updating UWP apps, that I really don't care about) my W10 desktop at home has been solid as a rock.
But that's anecdotal evidence for you, pretty well worthless in the absence of deeper, more methodical surveys.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Hibernate was always unstable, which is probably why they implemented fast-start as an immutable feature (it's not hibernate, but it's got all the bugs that hibernate had/has).
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Punishing Pundit Puns
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Hmmm, I didn't have any trouble with that. Was it supposed to sound like something else?
/ravi
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my guess is something grossly sexual.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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No. The message was the message.
If you want a fun one:
I slit a sheet;
A sheet I slit;
The sheet I slit
Was a well slit sheet.
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I'm having fun saying this, but my coworkers have begun to give me a wide berth. That is, wider than usual.
/ravi
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DO. NOT. EAT.
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That depends. Do you normally eat lots of starch and sugar? Was it fresh or fast food?
Note, never let it get cold.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: Do you normally eat lots of starch and sugar?
No.
Corporal Agarn wrote: Was it fresh or fast food?
Yes to both.
IT KEEPS COMING BACK TO HAUNT ME.
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Well if you do not eat that type of food often, it is not the best thing to order. Fast food version is a poor example. Hope you feel better soon.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Thanks 
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