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Hi Cp-Coder,
Excuse me. I thought you said clean install which entails reinstalling applications, settings, customising,etc.,as far as I know.
Please share your easy process if your are indeed doing a clean install. I'm curious. Have I been unawarely doing all this extra work for the last 30 years?
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I was obviously referring to the process of installing the operating system. Yes, you still have to do your apps subsequently.
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Well I guess, in all good will, what we said was not obvious to the other.
In my experience, W10 requires quite a bit of tuning, unless MS's defaults suit you.
Having said that, I find that W10 is the the best job Microsoft has done so far. The annoyances are generally to a minimum.
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Quote: W10 requires quite a bit of tuning, unless MS's defaults suit you
Yes indeed! I have a list of items that I fine tune after the install. Some are trivial, like adding a seconds output to the clock. Others are a little more involved, like moving the Windows Temp folders to another internal drive. My reason for doing this is to avoid temp files from bloating up Macrium images of the systems drive, etc. etc.
But my point was that I enjoy doing all this, and helping family members with their computers.
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Another reason to avoid Dell like the plague. Not that I needed one.
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Dell and all the major commodity PC vendors use the lowest spec components they can get away with. It is the nature of the beast. If you want the best performance, you will end up building your own PC and it wont be cheap.
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OK. But how do you determine the quality of major components, like the main board, that you buy in the retail market? 
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AnandTech is a good resource.
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Clear throat...Read the specs, research, etc before purchasing ANYTHING. Hell, even service manuals are available online.
What else can I say.
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Clear throat...Read the specs, research, etc before purchasing ANYTHING. Hell, even service manuals are available online.
What else can I say.
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When you order your computer online from Dell, like I do, you can configure the machine within tight bounds. For example: For my wife's machine, I could choose between a spinning disk drive or a NVMe S.2 SSD. Make and type of the drive was not stated. They tell you the drive's capacity, but not the make or model. Take it or leave it. I chose the slightly more expensive M.2 drive knowing that I may not get the fastest, more expensive SSD option, but at least the main board was guaranteed to have a S.2 connector and the bios was guaranteed to work with NVMe SSDs. I was disappointed because the SSD Dell supplied was so painfully slow. However, the extra money I spent to replace the slow SSD with a superfast Samsung 970 PRO unit was well spent.
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Hmmm,
In my current role I am a tester of all things embedded. One of the widgets that is due for deployment soon (?) has been my main task for some time, in this time I found a fault, it was cured (?) popped some where else, today though I managed to brick the unit. I have 'wakamole' problems the sort you fix and keep coming back. Memories of an RF system where the power was nice and low them peak when you went to measure it... I'm glad I don't have to chase this sucker... 
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I take it that this[^] is the device the system is embedded into.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not at the moment, however I will suggest it!
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It depends on your employer, but it is "great" for those who sell maintenance contracts, also those great features that say "coming soon" so you need a subscription or contract to eventually be able to have those great features.
It is sadly one reason why many engineers do not make great business people.
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silly O2, should've bought Huawei. 
after many stupid answers the nice folks at Technet said the only solution is to reinstall my signature. What a surprise!
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Quote: Mr Buckley said he had resorted to buying a second-hand iPhone 7 for £180 as his son had special needs and he needed to be contactable in case of an emergency at school.
Yeah, because your phone has to be an iPhone, it is the only phone that exists. He couldn't, for example, but a brand new £100 basic Android phone because they haven't been invented yet. It is iPhone or nothing so if you don't have much to spend on a phone a cheap second hand iPhone is literally your only option.
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That's the Apple Way!
Me? I have a Moto G (first gen) Android - it does everything I ask it to ... and I only got that because my old iPaq died.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Evidently his son is a chip off the old block.
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Well, what do you expect from a cheap Chinese phone that has ridiculously expensive non-Chinese designers?
For 600-odd quid, you get 120-quid's worth of phone, and the rest goes on the "design".
A bargain at a tenth of the price (but not as much as a ninth).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: For 600-odd quid, you get 120-quid's worth of phone, and the rest goes on the "design lifestyle".
FTFY!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: Mark_Wallace wrote: For 600-odd quid, you get 120-quid's worth of phone, and the rest goes on the "design lifestyle".
FTFY!
Good point.
apple makes a huge difference to my lifestyle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have you seen Iron Sky 2? The Church of Steve Jobs[^] was one of the more believable elements ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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