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Former Member
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Getting terrible, terrible crunching efficiency on the W10 host on top of the disastrously poor networking performance. Did Ctrl+Shft+Esc and looked at the cycle eaters. Culprit on host: 3 SearchFile/Filter indexers running, eating a combined 35 percent of total CPU power. Hope not, but suspect it's idexing each and every machine that's part of the Homegroup [Oh there's that wonderful 'Let Windows manage' option somewhere, everywhere]. Also going to verify it's not started to index the BOINC partition content as that is continuously written to [client_state.xml foremost].
----------------------------------------How to docile this monster: http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=faq-Windows-10&faq=53 Edit: The indexer has a pause button, but suspect it's until signing out or booting. The Seattle bastardi also changed my default browser from Firefox to Edge. This OS may be for free, but the EC commission may have this 'free' already under scrutiny. (Was that rumor true, Bill G is back in the saddle over there?) [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 10, 2015 1:02:06 PM] |
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Former Member
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Shrink that bleeding oversized search bar on the start-bar [which if you have more than 1 line of pinned icons, is not mouse scrollable. You have to go over to the scroll bar at right. No shrinking... just turning it into an icon or hiding it. 8|
----------------------------------------http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/how-to-shrink-hide-windows-10-taskbar-search-box/ How to resize the start-bar: http://www.winbeta.org/news/how-bring-back-ol...ing-windows-10-build-9926 BTW, had to upgrade BOINC to 7.6.6... something went wonky and the tasks were being eaten at the speed of reaching first checkpoint.[Must have been something I messed up getting through that MS firewall that was suddenly on. Edit: And although in services hit the Stop on indexing, sure enough 30 minutes later it was running again... slowly turning into a daylight incubo.  . On top of the stop button, also higher up in that screen set "Startup Type: Disabled". Maybe when all the back/forth synching is settled I'll re-enable, maybe.  [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 10, 2015 1:22:15 PM] |
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Former Member
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Whatever it is, was sick off it, pulled the ethernet cable from the W10 machine and had immediate normal responsiveness from intertubes and LAN.
Stopping the indexer did improve the efficiency on newly started tasks to 93%, but compared to 99.5% it was under W8.1 or Ubuntu on that machine, still wholly PP. And stuff that had disappeared from the control panel, such as Windows Update, take control with the "God Mode": http://www.winbeta.org/news/how-enable-god-mo...et-access-hidden-settings BTW, really odd was that on pulling the plug, my W7 machine got a message that Windows Mobile had disconnected. The really odd being, that on W10 had an option to switch to Mobile touch and all the advantages it had. The machine is 10 years old now... no touch technology on board. |
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petehardy
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And stuff that had disappeared from the control panel, such as Windows Update, take control with the "God Mode": Windows update is now in "Settings", called "Update & security".  "Patience is a virtue", I can't wait to learn it! |
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Former Member
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Yup, in effect we have 2 control panels now, one in old format, one in the dinky flat calling itself 'Settings'. The search box on the start bar got me there anyhow.
----------------------------------------Have powered the box down and will take the W7 option next time booting, or Ubuntu... just what the moment needs doing, such as high speed crunching FAHV/OET1. Really nothing worth looking at in there, absolutely nada. Cheers [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 10, 2015 6:16:13 PM] |
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deltavee
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My Win10 machine is getting efficiency of 99.5% on OET1 and 97.8% on CEP2. It has been getting these values since immediately after the install.
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vlado101
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And stuff that had disappeared from the control panel, such as Windows Update, take control with the "God Mode": Windows update is now in "Settings", called "Update & security". Thank you!!! I was looking for where that was.  |
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Former Member
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Suppose the my 'approved for W10' hardware is just not up to all that aspiring MS software technology.
When saying there's nada to be seen, that is of course from my perspective. Experiences will always widely differ. And did I ever know, USB 3.0 ports can be recognized as having a blue 'pantone'. Looked and looked, the specs and device manager say there's 3.0 on the laptop, but all the pantones are black, pitch black. On the less new desktop they are indeed blue matching the manual where they were to be found, so replugged the WIFI 801.11ac in there and boom, 343MB speed is indicated instead of the 160-220 it was trundling at. The W10 though has only ol Ethernet... 100MB. Don't understand why it is tearing down all aspects of networking on all machines, when under W8 or W7 or under Linux it's like not knowing the box is on. |
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Former Member
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"Update: July 30, 2015. Great quote from Windows expert Susan Bradley "... you should wait to install Win10 on your primary or production PCs ... Let tech writers and equally insane Windows users install Win10 first and report what they find."
That's exactly what I did, install it on just a non-essential test-system. One talked to the ISP and they were suggesting to change the WIFI channel, so that's what I did, but W10 wont come on again until I've recovered from this downer.  |
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Former Member
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Powered up and first thing hit the update button, to get a boatload, including some 'cumulative security update for windows 10'. It's patch Tuesday I thought, and those do not arrive here until Thursday or Friday so went to look:
http://betanews.com/2015/08/05/microsoft-update-for-windows-10/ Seems those were out already on the 6th... to 5 days later reach our hill. Meantime found that the piece that was teased by W10 on my LAN was a Dlink wireless manager going full out on the bridging host to to Wifi using a whole core ... 100%. Killed it, disabled it to not restart at boot and connections stayed up, albeit the LAN and internet is still slooooooow, but at least crunching is now up on the W10 machine to 96-97% if left alone. Discovered the 'search' bar down below only gives web results but not local... maybe this will be fixed next time, or maybe it's because I killed the indexer. Anyway to get the bookmarks from Firefox, had export them, import them in the hard to get to internet explorer, now pinned to start bar, and then in Edge import them for IE. The simple life. |
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