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Google, Microsoft talking about AI , bots all the super intelligent stuff. I wonder can't they first make a piece of software work properly? It's the 3rd time in last few months I'm ending up troubleshooting my PC for terrible issues.
My notebook has a very good config(basically a gaming machine) , It should by no means could get sluggish. When I started noticing it was dragging like a car with punctured tire, I got into troubleshooting. After coming around different diagnostics, I noticed the Disk utilization was badly stuck at 100%.
No matter how much of RAM you got, how much of CPU cores you got, if the disk utilization is high, nothing works. It was almost freezing my pc. I tried a lot of things including turning OFF Super-fectch service, windows Search indexing, background intel. trasfer service & more- all as per suggestions from OS forums.
When this happened the first time, My OS (Windows 8.1) got frozen at user login. There were serious problems, even the safe-mode threw up. I had to re-install the OS.
When this started to show up again after a week, I was quick to guess the culprit this time. It's the damned Chrome. (And no my disk doesn't have any bad sectors, its perfectly fine)
I uninstalled Chrome and things were alright. After a month, the same Disk Utilization problem popped up. And I went straight to uninstall Chrome & re-installed, it worked good again.
The 3rd time, I noticed. When I'm shutting down the PC forcefully (before chrome could shutdown all the running process), I guess things are turning awfully wrong on disk. Chrome seem to make extensive (read it excessive) usage of the disk, may be for caching the whole thing for super perf. or it's a problem with OS paging huge data. Dont know.
If there's a little damage to the disk files management, I guess it's tossing up the browser completely.
And re-installing the Browser doesn't work too , until you select the option to clear the disk-cache files.
And my question to Windows is, if a particular program is screwing up the whole PC, can this be detected and warned intelligently instead of making the whole OS suffer. It was almost feeling like Windows-95,98 times. Where just one bad application can freak the whole OS out. (Remember the double Ctrl+Alt+Del=Boom?)
All the "AI" stuff these companies talk about, why not first put it to use in their existing products and make lives better? 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Vunic wrote: All the "AI" stuff these companies talk about, why not first put it to use in their existing products and make lives better?
You do know that this AI stuff has been around for decades and now has become so popular because they happen to have nothing else to create a hype around? It's just the latest buzzword, that is slapped on everything that behaves as intelligently as a potted plant.
Your software problems are the other side of this. Everything has been stuffed until under the roof with endless features which nobody needs. It's the trash bin of all buzzwords that came before and the great AI stuff will end here as well. All in the name of selling you the next 'best ever' version of something.
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Precisely. 
"Cloud" is the mother of all buzzword-abuses, followed by "AI", "IoT" & many more.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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people still use chrome on pc/laptop?
I hear intel's bringing out 8 core CPU's, that with 16G or more DDR4 and a 6GBps SSD might almost be enough.
once was OK, now it's just crap.
Unlike ms software tho it's not coz feature bloat so it's just weird that it's become so bad (and surely the lousy go programming language can't take all the blame - must be something else wrong with it.)
Sin tack
the any key okay
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You use firefox?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I hate Chrome. Every few days I have to close it, then go into Task Manager and kill all the "extra" Chrome processes that hang around even after closing the browser.
If I don't, the mouse starts hesitating and disconnecting.
But I'm stuck with Chrome for some things, so I can't not use it. :'(
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we could do this[^]. Or not. Probably not.
On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright
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I don't need this tool. I have a built-in device attached to myself and can do this especially when i drink lots of beer.  
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I see some minor differences there, especially when you are crawling on the ground and can't find your way out of the garden anymore. Bonus points if it's not your garden and they have to call the cops to drag you out.
So what do we learn? You are not drunk as long as you can still lie on the floor without holding onto something.
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: I have a built-in device attached to myself and can do this especially when i drink lots of beer.
That's very much corded.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I wonder how many people do NOT see the problem with that...
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Why should I see a problem? Every minute a sucker is born and there we have our customers. Ever since we replaced the guys from sales and marketing with trained monkeys there also are no problems anymore, no matter what we are trying to sell.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I wonder how many people do NOT see the problem with that.
You mean putting all the heads together? 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Vunic wrote: You mean putting all the heads together?
On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright
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Are you saying that you CAN NOT solve the problem?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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In Ireland we have the cloud hosted version of that.
Can't see how you turn it off though.
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We have that technology in Wales as well - all I need now is a remote control for it...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: In Ireland we have the cloud hosted version of that.
Can't see how you turn it off though.
But hey, you can water entire neighborhoods at once!
On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright
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Well ... Kickstarter has funded dafter projects ...
All we need for this is the well-proven Star Trek replicators in a small package. Or Teleport technology, perhaps.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Either that, or take the device to a clear mountain stream, and apply the Law of Contagion
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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"Homeopathic Hosepipe"? Yeah, that could work. Kickstarter would get that backed in no time!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Two days ago I started a new solution in Visual Studio 2017 Community that has several projects, targeting .Net 4.7. Very soon I noticed in the App.config file of every project, that intellisense was whining that the configuration element was not set. It was just a warning, the solution compiled fine. Nevertheless I found it irritating and set out to get rid of the warning.
I tried every trick I could think of, kept me busy for hours and I was contemplating drastic action, including suicide! 
In the end it finally dawned on me: Targeting the brand new .NET 4.7, there was something amiss in the schemas called for in the config file. Another hour or so struggling with schemas, I tried to change the catalog.xml file that is in this folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Xml\Schemas
In the catalog.xml file, edit the line that contains ".NETFramework,Version=v4.6" and change 4.6 to 4.7
Problem solved! But it took the better part of a day. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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This is irritating. I solve it by opening the main menu item XML, Schemas and selecting 'use this schema' for DotNetConfig.xsd. Shouldn't have to do this.
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If you follow my steps and edit the catalog file, you will find that the schema: DotNetConfig.xsd is automatically selected for all projects in the solution.
[Edit] This solution only works for projects targeting .NET 4.7 If you target any earlier version, you most probably will run into the same issue.[/Edit]
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 1-Aug-17 20:33pm.
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Done. 
Thanks
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