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12-23-10, 08:40 AM | #91 | |
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@Frau: I'm REALLY impressed(almost shocked)with your PC skills. |
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12-23-10, 11:00 AM | #92 | ||
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But I enjoy tinkering with stuff and at some point I decided to upgrade or add some hardware on my very first computer and once I did that successfully I realized there was nothing sacred or magical about the insides of one, at the end of the day it's just another machine. |
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12-23-10, 11:25 AM | #93 |
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Frau Valkyrie! How has it been for you, is everything all right with W7?
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12-23-10, 12:44 PM | #94 |
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Congrats,frau I probably would have thrown the machine out the window,glad you got it going!
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12-23-10, 02:26 PM | #95 |
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Everything is going well, I am reinstalling all the programs I need for "everyday" stuff like email and paying bills and whatnot. And of course going through the process of getting them set up the way I want them, which is a pain but necessary.
I've let Windows Update download and install everything that it wants to, all the hardware drivers check out as up-to-date. I've rebooted several times and so far, no problems. Still have to format and partition that second HDD and that will probably be the last thing that qualifies as a "nail biter" just because I had such a bad experience when I tried to add it after the initial OS installation. But since it's connected and showing up in Disk Management and I'm not having any problems I think it will be okay. |
12-23-10, 02:31 PM | #96 |
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Great,party tonight
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12-23-10, 02:34 PM | #97 |
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Actually I was wondering about the possibility of installing my games on that second drive, since I'm not going to put them in the Programs folder.
Would that be a problem in terms of performance when loading and running them? I know that on an older computer I had games installed on a "D" drive but now that I think about it that might have been a second partition on one internal HDD, not a second HDD. |
12-23-10, 02:38 PM | #98 |
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Is the primary hdd partition (C)?
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12-23-10, 02:39 PM | #99 |
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Great to hear you got it going!
I'm very happy with Win 7 Ultimate so far. A few issues with some programs tick me off, but I can work around them. PS CS5 64 bit - no dds support! (Adobe says it's not a standard format? WTF!!!) Tried Gimp with the plug in and can't see the dds files for SH? My SH5 Exporter don't work on this system........... YET! But over all? I'm happy as a pig in mud! |
12-23-10, 02:48 PM | #100 | |
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I only have one partition per disk, C is the boot drive and first internal HDD. The D drive is the second internal HDD, E is the external drive where I keep all my docs and music and backups.
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EDIT: Oh I meant to ask... is it safe to delete that "Public" user folder and subfolders? If that's only for other users to save stuff, there's never going to be anything in there. I remember going through XP at one point and getting rid of all the "sample" files that it installed in My Pictures and My Music, but I can't remember if I deleted any "extra" user folders that seemed unnecessary. |
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12-23-10, 03:09 PM | #101 |
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it can be removed, but I think this is unnecessary, one day you may want to have the W7/folders,works a little differently an XP,
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12-23-10, 03:54 PM | #102 |
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All my games are run on the second drive,I just made a folder \Games and then put them in . the only game on c drive is SH5
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12-23-10, 11:51 PM | #103 |
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Might boost performance a bit; Windows can load from one HD without interfering with game-activity.
Can gain more by moving the page file to a separate HD, but in the end it's all minimal gains. In my case I have a small dedicated partition at the start of the 2nd HD containing the page file, and the second partition houses all game installs.
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12-24-10, 12:45 AM | #104 |
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Paging files and virtual memory was gonna be my next question, lol.
I have the 2 internal drives (1 TB and 160 GB) and the 1 external (1 TB), and 6 GB RAM installed. So what would be recommended min/max size and location of my paging file(s)? I know I had to go into XP at one point and do a custom setting to get just what Windows recommended, but I only had the one internal HDD then and I assumed putting it on the external drive would be a bad idea (if only because I have had occasions where I tried to pull up data from that drive only to find the cable had jiggled loose and then I'd have to remount it... didn't want to lose contact with the paging file indefinitely and unknowingly in that situation). Right now I've got the paging file on the C (system/boot) drive, min 9216 MB and max 18432 MB. I was shooting for the RAM x1.5/x3 rule, don't know if that's optimal but I've seen it repeated just about every place I look for info. There's nothing on the 160 GB HDD yet so dedicating a portion of it to a paging file would be a cinch. |
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Wasn't the "rule" 1.5x to 2x RAM? can't remember now, but that's what I've been using.
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In mine I have a 10GB partition at the start of the disk (which is the fastest part, it get's slower in finding and writing data towards the outer portions of the platters) set to 6GB min and 8GB max (would be 9GB/12GB or 9216MB/12288MB in your case). Quote:
Some advice to never remove the page file from C: completely, to increase stability, but I've never had any issues with it. (though reading the next bit I'm gonna create a system-managed one on C: again) Quote:
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