New Toy
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Just purchased a lovely Samsung Series 7 Ultra with SSD, Radeon video card, touch screen and Win8.... Over to the denizens of the lounge for advice as to what to do / don't do etc (aside from nuking Norton at the first opportunity)... Had people suggesting all sorts like turning off windows searches etc to protect the SSD, but any other bits and bobs I should know / anything useful I should grab?... Have to say - it's an awesome bit of kit!
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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Just purchased a lovely Samsung Series 7 Ultra with SSD, Radeon video card, touch screen and Win8.... Over to the denizens of the lounge for advice as to what to do / don't do etc (aside from nuking Norton at the first opportunity)... Had people suggesting all sorts like turning off windows searches etc to protect the SSD, but any other bits and bobs I should know / anything useful I should grab?... Have to say - it's an awesome bit of kit!
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
Don't worry about the SSD. Statistically, the drive just won't wear out. btw, you do not need to defrag it either. For me, I have turned off indexing as the SSD is so damn fast, it's indexed by definition :) Norton I despised. I have had no issue with MS Security Essentials. If this is for development, I'd get another SSD and image your SSD on a backup basis, which reminds me, I'm due for that myself.
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Just purchased a lovely Samsung Series 7 Ultra with SSD, Radeon video card, touch screen and Win8.... Over to the denizens of the lounge for advice as to what to do / don't do etc (aside from nuking Norton at the first opportunity)... Had people suggesting all sorts like turning off windows searches etc to protect the SSD, but any other bits and bobs I should know / anything useful I should grab?... Have to say - it's an awesome bit of kit!
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
RichardGrimmer wrote:
nuking Norton
and don't forget all the other bloatware usually shipped with preinstalled windows...
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Just purchased a lovely Samsung Series 7 Ultra with SSD, Radeon video card, touch screen and Win8.... Over to the denizens of the lounge for advice as to what to do / don't do etc (aside from nuking Norton at the first opportunity)... Had people suggesting all sorts like turning off windows searches etc to protect the SSD, but any other bits and bobs I should know / anything useful I should grab?... Have to say - it's an awesome bit of kit!
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
Richard, I endorse what CharlieG wrote about Norton. Get rid of it. Microsoft's Security Essentials is a good product and the price is absolutely right, last listed at £0.00.:thumbsup:
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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RichardGrimmer wrote:
nuking Norton
and don't forget all the other bloatware usually shipped with preinstalled windows...
That possibly includes the non-essential crap the hardware manufacturer puts on it as well. I have a long-in-the-tooth Acer laptop at home. The amount of crap they pre-installed was unbelievable. It ran faster after I reformatted the HDD. Mind you, the dipsticks did install Vista so there was a net gain going to Win7.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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That possibly includes the non-essential crap the hardware manufacturer puts on it as well. I have a long-in-the-tooth Acer laptop at home. The amount of crap they pre-installed was unbelievable. It ran faster after I reformatted the HDD. Mind you, the dipsticks did install Vista so there was a net gain going to Win7.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
Reformatting and doing a clean install (with the necessary drivers) is generally a good idea as especially the Antivirus Software is EXTREMELY nasty to remove (it hooks itself up in some of the deepest levels. which it probably needs to scan for rootkits etc.)
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Just purchased a lovely Samsung Series 7 Ultra with SSD, Radeon video card, touch screen and Win8.... Over to the denizens of the lounge for advice as to what to do / don't do etc (aside from nuking Norton at the first opportunity)... Had people suggesting all sorts like turning off windows searches etc to protect the SSD, but any other bits and bobs I should know / anything useful I should grab?... Have to say - it's an awesome bit of kit!
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
RichardGrimmer wrote:
Over to the denizens of the lounge for advice as to what to do
Uninstall W8. ;) Or, barring that, install one of those Start menu buttons that are free and never look back. BTW, I will write my tale of getting W8 configured on my housemate's new laptop soon. It's quite an amusing story regarding getting Netflix working. Marc
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Just purchased a lovely Samsung Series 7 Ultra with SSD, Radeon video card, touch screen and Win8.... Over to the denizens of the lounge for advice as to what to do / don't do etc (aside from nuking Norton at the first opportunity)... Had people suggesting all sorts like turning off windows searches etc to protect the SSD, but any other bits and bobs I should know / anything useful I should grab?... Have to say - it's an awesome bit of kit!
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
RichardGrimmer wrote:
but any other bits and bobs I should know / anything useful I should grab?
Send it immediately to me for further inspection. :) 1 Mickey Mouse Lane Neverland, SC OU812 Thanks I'll take good care of it!
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.
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Just purchased a lovely Samsung Series 7 Ultra with SSD, Radeon video card, touch screen and Win8.... Over to the denizens of the lounge for advice as to what to do / don't do etc (aside from nuking Norton at the first opportunity)... Had people suggesting all sorts like turning off windows searches etc to protect the SSD, but any other bits and bobs I should know / anything useful I should grab?... Have to say - it's an awesome bit of kit!
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
RichardGrimmer wrote:
Had people suggesting all sorts like turning off windows searches etc to protect the SSD
Don't worry about anything like that; even with a low capacity SSD normal user workloads don't generate anywhere near enough writes to wear one out before it becomes hopelessly out of date or dies of simple old age (about a decade). In the unlikely event that you are averaging >20GB/day writes you might need to worry; but unless you're running a DB server or doing heavy video editing that's well over the plausible rate.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
