PC vs Console gaming

[Gird3r]

To be honest. I have not even used an quadra core processor? What?
I can sit down at any windows computer, and atleast give an hint of what to do next. One of the jobs the computer had no internet to use for downloading eventuall drivers, and no information what so ever about brand, model numbers, and perfomance details. Took me 4 hours to fix it. By installing 3 drivers. The mouse, The Sound, The network. 3 hours spent searching for the brand and model numbers, and 1 hour to go home and download it and then return there to install it.

That's another bother, when people ask me for help, I come look. I see no brand, no manuals, no information whatsoever. It just adds an uneccesary 2-3 hours of searching to find the brand etc etc.

If I was actually employed, I could easily charge like 10-20$/h just for that hassle (making an diagnosis).

Both my IT school I was at, and the 5 people I did freelancing jobs at (2 was paid, 3 was free) told me I had green fingers with computers. Literally.

No one ever tought I could make my motherboard run again after I accidently scraped an side of it while inserting it. I made it run.

I bet you already know this, but you can speedup the appreance of the Start menu by about 50% without it even tickling your RAM or Processor Or Graphics for that matter. Which shortly means it appears faster when holding your mouse over it.

Nah I cannot expect them to know, but I can expect them to want to learn.
Seriosly, In my honest opinion, you should not be using an computer if you are not learning about the computer you are using. Get to know your computer. I will not use an car if I have not learned how to drive it correctly yet. Same for an computer. I can do an exception for an old granny argument, but not for an youth.

Time is money, spending money on endless repairs because of oneselfs stupidity is an huge waste.


Also, if you have followed that route and shut down shit in the processor list, there's way way more to find in the registery that needs to begone. But you did not want to touch it. So not touching it.

Have you tried putting explorer.exe On processor priority low and the game itself on Processor priority High?

[Julio.]

Why would you need to install mouse drivers? Most USB mice are "Plug n Play"

PS/2 plugs anyone?  :hurray:

[TheRock]

To be honest. I have not even used an quadra core processor? What?
I can sit down at any windows computer, and atleast give an hint of what to do next. One of the jobs the computer had no internet to use for downloading eventuall drivers, and no information what so ever about brand, model numbers, and perfomance details. Took me 4 hours to fix it. By installing 3 drivers. The mouse, The Sound, The network. 3 hours spent searching for the brand and model numbers, and 1 hour to go home and download it and then return there to install it.

That's another bother, when people ask me for help, I come look. I see no brand, no manuals, no information whatsoever. It just adds an uneccesary 2-3 hours of searching to find the brand etc etc.

If I was actually employed, I could easily charge like 10-20$/h just for that hassle (making an diagnosis).

Both my IT school I was at, and the 5 people I did freelancing jobs at (2 was paid, 3 was free) told me I had green fingers with computers. Literally.

No one ever tought I could make my motherboard run again after I accidently scraped an side of it while inserting it. I made it run.

I bet you already know this, but you can speedup the appreance of the Start menu by about 50% without it even tickling your RAM or Processor Or Graphics for that matter. Which shortly means it appears faster when holding your mouse over it.

Nah I cannot expect them to know, but I can expect them to want to learn.
Seriosly, In my honest opinion, you should not be using an computer if you are not learning about the computer you are using. Get to know your computer. I will not use an car if I have not learned how to drive it correctly yet. Same for an computer. I can do an exception for an old granny argument, but not for an youth.

Time is money, spending money on endless repairs because of oneselfs stupidity is an huge waste.


Also, if you have followed that route and shut down shit in the processor list, there's way way more to find in the registery that needs to begone. But you did not want to touch it. So not touching it.

Have you tried putting explorer.exe On processor priority low and the game itself on Processor priority High?

While you write good things, some of them are just silly also :P.. Why put it on low-priority when you can just shut it down? :P.. You can later re-launch it... Task Manager, new task and 'explorer.exe'.. problem gone lol.

[Julio.]

While you write good things, some of them are just silly also :P.. Why put it on low-priority when you can just shut it down? :P.. You can later re-launch it... Task Manager, new task and 'explorer.exe'.. problem gone lol.

TheRock, if you shut down explorer.exe it shuts down everything, the start menu, taskbar, it disappears, it then reboots itself back up again, this does not benefit you at all.

[TheRock]

No it does not reboot it self(if you kill it by task manager), unless it crashes and you ask for it to reboot.. And yes, it does benefit you .. At least on low-end pcs.. I can't tell when I run a 4-cores pc whether I'll see difference running a game with or without explorer.exe in background.. But I surely did see when I used to run Pentium 4 @ 1,8 Ghz with 512mb ram..

[Julio.]

No it does not reboot it self(if you kill it by task manager), unless it crashes and you ask for it to reboot.. And yes, it does benefit you .. At least on low-end pcs.. I can't tell when I run a 4-cores pc whether I'll see difference running a game with or without explorer.exe in background..

It's always rebooted when I've ended the process...

[TheRock]

It's always rebooted when I've ended the process...

Then it is your windows.. What are you using?

Explorer.exe does not reboot for me at Windows XP 32bit SP3 but neither does on my Windows 7 32bit... strange.

[Julio.]

Then it is your windows.. What are you using?

Explorer.exe does not reboot for me at Windows XP 32bit SP3 but neither does on my Windows 7 32bit... strange.

XP 32 bit SP3, same as you :o

[Gird3r]

While you write good things, some of them are just silly also :P.. Why put it on low-priority when you can just shut it down? :P.. You can later re-launch it... Task Manager, new task and 'explorer.exe'.. problem gone lol.

Not everyone wants to shut off explorer.exe. But thar's fine to do too.