by wwarren | Jul 30, 2016 | Hardware, Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, Storage, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7
I just dumped my main computer( my annual maintenance is a format/reload) to reload it and I decided to put Windows 10 on this machine for giggles. The install was really fast as this system is nothing to sneeze at: Intel core I-5 4690k 32 Gigs DDR3 1600 Crucial...
by wwarren | Jul 23, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7
Ever since Microsoft started “giving away” Windows 10 I figured something was up. As i said in an earlier post there is no way Microsoft is going to give away nearly a third of their base income at the time without some way to make it back. With the...
by wwarren | Jun 21, 2016 | Internet, Microsoft, Windows, Windows 10
I can verify the author’s experiences below. I have a Surface 3 and an HP laptop running windows 10. I also have a shuttle box with a sandy bridge core i-3 cpu and 8 gigs of ram. Edge is a total hog. It will grab everything in ram it can and then force the...
by wwarren | Mar 19, 2016 | Microsoft, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8
Microsoft has just announced they are adding a year to their windows 7 Skylake and above support times. Excerpted from The Tech Report article: Microsoft has now updated its Skylake support policy, and saw it fit to extend the support period for Windows 7 and...
by wwarren | Feb 11, 2016 | General, Security, Security Alerts, Server 8, Vista, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8
There’s no real way to know how much legacy code is still in Windows but i get it is more than anyone wants to admit. I see articles that claim windows has been rewritten but i have known for a long time that is not the case. The latest major security problem...
by wwarren | Feb 2, 2016 | General, Microsoft, Windows 10
If you are running 7 or 8.x your machine is most likely going to surprise you and go right to windows 10 irregardless of if your hardware can actually handle it. For some folks this will be painless and for others it is not going to be a fun time. You can go to my...
