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Recent content by Reziac

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    Looking to Possibly Build a New Non-Gaming System

    Phil's Computer Lab has messed with a lot of those cheap Xeon brands -- they're made from chips salvaged from retired servers, which gives you more options in CPU and RAM. Which is fine, and they're okay as a budget solution, but per Phil's reviews, they don't have the stability of the...
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    Looking to Possibly Build a New Non-Gaming System

    When someone talks about building a system, they are rarely speaking of laptops. :) But yes, use-case is the prime consideration. I wouldn't want to be carting around my first Xeon workstation (from 2000)... it weighs 57 pounds!! Laptops are a very different thing from desktops, especially if...
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    Looking to Possibly Build a New Non-Gaming System

    Given a choice, I go for a Xeon CPU. Better performance at the same nominal speed, much better large memory support, also supports error-correcting RAM (ECC server RAM can usually be had at a significantly lower price than desktop RAM). AMD burned their CPU bridges with me a long time ago (all...
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    Windows 11 Has Got Even Worse Now!

    Not nostalgia. Practicality. XP64 behaves as I wish, and doesn't make my eyes bleed.
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    Windows 11 Has Got Even Worse Now!

    But they are not Random Desktop Linux (which is all over the place for quality, stability, manageability, and features). They're either server instances, or something monolithic like Ubuntu or Fedora Workstation. And yes, by amazing coincidence, we are on a Windows forum! should we not discuss...
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    Windows 11 Has Got Even Worse Now!

    I should have clarified: I was using the defrag utility to VIEW the condition of the files on the flash drive. I did NOT defrag the flash drive. This has nothing to do with defragmentation utilities. Rather, it painfully illustrated that the idea that "linux does not fragment files" is a myth...
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    Windows 11 Has Got Even Worse Now!

    I don't know the technical reasons. However, when I've had to run fsck (essentially chkdsk for linux) it is very likely to just delete files when it corrects disk errors. (This is on ext4, probably the most mainstream of the linux filesystems.) I've seen it delete multiple GB of files, and NONE...
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    Windows 11 Has Got Even Worse Now!

    As XP64 is still my daily driver, you can tell how much I worry about updates. However, my other EOL'd systems have not discovered they are EOL. Guess what got security updates within the past month? Win10 Pro -- told me "this device is no longer receiving updates" then on the very same...
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    Bloody Heck Windows Update Strikes Again

    I already had an 18 month old OEM Win11 install tell me it was too old and would receive no further updates. Meanwhile, I have a Win8.1 virtual machine that still receives security updates. (most recently about two weeks back. July 2025.) It is increasingly difficult to take their update and...
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    Windows 10 Apps icons missing please help.

    Icon cache may also be too small. This will cause randomly disappearing icons, and is not fixed by rebuilding the cache. Fix: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/increase-icon-cache-size-in-windows Winaero Tweaker also has a setting to increase the cache. This program is a nice front end to the...
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    Hard disc drive does not work windows 11

    NTFS was updated a few years back. However, this caused a different problem, and now that I notice the affected drive is just 300GB, I wonder if it was formatted under the old NTFS (Win7 and before, IIRC). If an external drive is accessed directly (ie. is not in a commercial enclosure that uses...
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    Bloody Heck Windows Update Strikes Again

    I used Winaero Tweaker to entirely disable Win11 updates.
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    Hard disc drive does not work windows 11

    This is not true. The reason (and I found this in Microsoft's own Knowledge Base, back when the old one was still online) it was limited to 32GB in Win98 is because there is a bug in FAT32 that causes data wrapping once any data is written beyond the 32GB limit. There was a long technical...
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