{"id":2815,"date":"2013-06-16T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T17:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2013-06-16T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T18:43:27","slug":"os-speed-lesson-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":"OS Speed Lesson Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MotherI have been a bit frustrated on the performance of my super bad, 64 bit quad processor, 3.2 GHz, 8 GIG RAM, and 4 Terabytes of Storage, WIN 7 Ultimate. Pretty hot hardware specs and better than almost everything else made today. Re-built about 3 or 4 years ago after a lighting strike, I can\u2019t make her any better today except add more processor cores and maybe a bit faster GPU video card. But almost nothing I run could take advantage of them.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the problem? Well, it actually was the WIN 7 operating system. It\u2019s bad-ass too, better than WIN 8 on this kind of system and I tested WIN 8 myself. I was experiencing very slow start ups and just generally sluggish performance. I thought I was smarter than Microsoft so through the years I had shut off various built in protection features like Windows Defender, WIN firewall, etc.. I have a network firewall so why did I need another firewall on the computer in my private network?<\/p>\n

I swear those \u201ctweaks\u201d I made at first never had any ill effect on computer speed. But of course the OS is always getting updated, sometimes several times in a week. So who knows what gets changed\u2026 certainly not information available to mere mortal systems owners.<\/p>\n

Awhile ago a message starting popping up on my screen at cold boot telling me certain system communications \u201cfeatures\u201d were turned off and that\u00a0 I should read the logs and fix the proclaimed problem. Primarily the message said outside services were unable to communicate with my system.\u00a0 Well, that was fine with me. I planned it that way. I simply ignored the message as a typical WIN OS nuisance. All my programs were running OK (I assumed).<\/p>\n

But as my system got more and more \u201cboggy\u201d I figured I better investigate this warning and see if it was involved with the slow down. Buried in an infinite amount system help files I discovered that modifying things like Firewall and Windows Defender (WD) and various reporting systems was a serious no-no and Windows would get even with me for messing with Mother Nature. WIN 7 contains known (but not to me until then) system slowdown \u201cfeatures.\u201d \u00a0The OS was saying, \u201cDo it my way or the slow way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ok crud, I thought. I guess I better play along with the \u201ccreator\u2019s\u201d Master Plan. I set WIN 7 within as many of my tweaks I could remember, back to system specifications and followed all the rules like blink my screen to black<\/span> if the op system \u201cthinks\u201d the software I am about to purposely run may not be properly registered. Grr\u2026<\/p>\n

But holy smokes batman! My computer has suddenly turned back into a screaming demon fast bad-ass again. I\u2019d forgotten how fast it could be. Applications \u201cpop\u201d open again and all is well in Mudville. It could be just various caches working again but I am impressed.<\/p>\n

Lesson learned: It\u2019s not nice to fool (too much) with the Mother Nature in your Windows OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been a bit frustrated on the performance of my super bad, 64 bit quad processor, 3.2 GHz, 8 GIG RAM, and 4 Terabytes of Storage, WIN 7 Ultimate. Pretty hot hardware specs and better than almost everything else made today. Re-built about 3 or 4 years ago after a lighting strike, I can\u2019t make her any better today except add more processor cores and maybe a bit faster GPU video card. But almost...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[28,96],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","category-musing","tag-computer","tag-sofware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}