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I've never had any Windows troubleshooter fix anything, except for the most extremely simple problems that are quicker to manually fix anyway.
Same with System Restore. I had it successfully recover a relative's botched update - once - where Vista (to give you an idea of the timeframe) was stuck in a reboot loop. Rolled it back, reinstalled the update, and everything was fine. But I always have it disabled on my own systems, as I've never had a single use for it.
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I posted this at reddit, but then I remembered that the real hardware experts hang around CodeProject (yes, the flattery is intentional so that I get good information).
NOTE: What I call an "extension cable" is a cable with 1 male end and 1 female end, with the ends being the standard big USB port.
I had bought a pair of no-name extension cables from Amazon, and then when I tried to use them with a GameDoc Ultra video-capture box, neither of them worked - and so now I am looking for a brand that I can get at Amazon that will work. Or is it that the signal from the video-capture box gets too attenuated (this cable was 10-feet), and thus I need some sort of boost device, etc.? I just want to be able to keep my computer on a table that happens to be that far from the video-capture box & console (XBox360 - yes, I understand that it's "vintage").
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did you try the cable with an actual PC? Some non-PC devices are strange, as in, your mileage may vary.
Sounds like you are using a type A extension - USB 2.0. I've used these for a long time for work and had no issues. The spec says 25 meters is the max, but I'd not go that far  . 10 ft is nothing. Are BOTH cables from the same maker? If they won't work with a PC, they will not work with a random box. You would be amazed about all sorts of magic done in hardware and embedded software that is just elephanted up. Right code witch?
I know this might shock a lot of you (tongue in cheek), but Amazon does zero QC on the crap, excuse me, products they peddle. They just could not give a <insert appropriate="" phrase="" here="">. The prices are sometimes so cheap, people just don't bother with the return and trash them. Go out to newegg. They have better QC.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Check into what level USB your device uses. There are multiple levels of USB; identify by using the color of the plastic piece inside as a guide. White or black indicates a USB1 or 2 device, blue is USB 3.0, and red USB 3.1 - Generally, that is. Not all mfrs follow the rules. I just learned this myself, and had to look it up to figure out why my cursor froze when I plugged in a 3.0 thumb drive. I was baffled, because I purposely built this PC to have a few 3.0 ports. Then I looked into the USB hub I'd plugged the device into and noticed that it only could support USB 2. Grrrr...
Will Rogers never met me.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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A smart phone now a days has way less power consumption than what a Pentium at the turn of the century had yet the amount of computing power and memory of the former is ten fold greater then of the later. How can that be explained. Why does the smart phone OS work with less juice? The resolution is the same or better so that should count in favor of greater power consumption. On the other hand there are no drivers and less hardware resources to listen to on mobiles.
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Specialized hardware with super strict constraints.
All phones (of the same model) have the same hardware (screen, storage, ...) , it's not hard to optimize power usage.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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This is possible because of:
- improvements in power consumption - CPU, memory, storage, display
- Improvements in CPU technology (instruction set, NPUs, GPUs, etc.)
- Improvements in display technology
- Improvements in CPU speed
Also, the phone O/S is optimized to aggressively manage power, turning off idle devices and suspending idle processes. This was not true of desktop O/Ses at the turn of the century.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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There have been a number of factors at play in the the years since the introduction of the x86 architecture Pentium processors (circa 1993).
The scaling of the physical transistors (roughly 800 nanometer to current 7 nanometer geometry) This lowers the distance between transistors and so the resistance to electron flow (Heat Loss).
The raising of the clock speed From below 100 megahertz to the common gigahertz ranges today. (again by having less distance to travel there is less heat generated by higher clocking.)
The chip architecture is different. (ARM versus X86) the ARM architecture was designed with low power mobile in mind.
The CPU support chip architecture has changed dramatically with dynamic speed adjustment depending on load, putting idle resources into low power states.
Mobile operating systems also have special code to take advantage of power saving hardware and subsystems where old pre-mobile desk top systems did not.
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Can two possible reasons be:
1. The screen of a smartphone is mostly in dark mode. Meaning that its mostly off/standby
2. The processes in a smartphone are also mostly in "daemon"/standby mode.
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As previous replies have said, there are many factors at play. One that hasn't been mentioned is the CPU voltage that went down from 5V to 1.8V or less. For a more in depth discussion see Processor power dissipation - Wikipedia[^]
Mircea
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Thanks for your feedback everyone. I think I understand smaller transistor means less power to operate the Boolean gates ( same math at lower cost). And it’s not just mobile processors. Math on desktop processors got cheaper too.
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Gets power from your brain waves as it reads your mind.
Hope I'm just joking.
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All smartphones use ARM processors, and even back in the pentium days, the ARM sales guys would happily demonstrate that they could run they processor using only the waste heat from a pentium ...
If you generate heat in a chip, that's using power - and the more power, the more heat. ARM chips are very well designed to use low power and to waste less of what they do use, whereas the Pentiums were designed for brute force power. Add in that the Pentium machine code was (and still is) a horrendous mess compared the RISC ARM code and you get to do more with less!
Then there is the OS: Windows is a big, heavy OS that evolved from a 16 bit command line only DOS to a fully GUI monster that needs loads of RAM, loads of SSD, and loads of threads to do anything, compared with Android / iOS which often struggles to do one thing at a time well 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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To say Windows today has evolved from the early DOS based products (1-3, 95) is not strictly true - Windows NT (which begat Windows XP, Vista, 7, etc) was a completely different codebase to the older 16 bit DOS based Windows for home use.
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Quote: Add in that the Pentium machine code was (and still is) a horrendous mess compared the RISC ARM code and you get to do more with less!
Except when order of execution matters[CLR - .NET Development for ARM Processors | Microsoft Learn]. Then you fill your code with order pinning instructions, denying what ARM is. Or design a new CPU HW for it, like Apple did, and voila, you have decent x86/x64 emulation speed. But don't have an ARM CPU.
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