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#1 Nazgûl

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Posted 01 January 2016 - 11:57 AM

Just a little something that struck me today, when realizing I probably have to reinstall my laptop soon. I haven't done so in about 3 years by now. This HP Pavilion dv6 has been surprisingly solid, even though it's 6 years old now. But, the last few weeks have shown significant decrease in performance, especially when exiting programs and closing Windows. So I feel another reinstall is inevitable, sooner or later. The best part of those, I think, is getting rid of all those; "Just wanna try this game/program/app", that you didn't like, but that lingers around in your system, with unknown performance issues, and naturally all potential threats and hazards such as virus and malware. The downside is all them things you must remember to backup. Not only files, folders and bookmarks and but also settings and passwords, etc and it's so easy to miss out here and there, which makes me tend to skip the whole ordeal  :crazed:

 

I wonder, how often do you reinstall your system?  :shiftee2:


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Posted 01 January 2016 - 12:01 PM

I never did :p.

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Posted 01 January 2016 - 12:05 PM

You mean format my drives? I don't think I've ever had to. I've done it to clean out old drives that I wanted to repurpose, but in order to fix bad performance? I don't believe I've had to do that.

 

Proper maintenance and timely upgrades keep me safe. :p


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Posted 01 January 2016 - 12:33 PM

Exactly, treat your pc (or laptop) like you would treat your children :p.


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Posted 01 January 2016 - 12:47 PM

Yep. I upgrade my son every 10 to 12 months.


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Posted 01 January 2016 - 12:50 PM

Child 1.1... 1.2...  :thumbsupxd:


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Posted 01 January 2016 - 12:56 PM

I never do :p

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Posted 01 January 2016 - 04:27 PM

Probably every year. I have a habit of messing up my laptop. That said, my current laptop, five years in, still works (more or less).


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Posted 01 January 2016 - 05:24 PM

Once a year seems about right to me.

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Posted 01 January 2016 - 08:39 PM

Yeah, that's what I did with my previous system, a full tower. But when the GPU died on that one, I bought this laptop in 2010. Surprisingly it hasn't shown the same need for total recall, like the full system did.


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Posted 02 January 2016 - 04:21 PM

...but now, I have to  :flameblast: My lappie is sooo slow now that I can hardy use it, at all. zBrush runs fine (oddly enough) and I can juggle models with 5 million polygons with ease... But Internet browsers are running like a tortoise in mud, and just opening folders, programs and closing programs causes the whole system to freeze or hang just about all the time. Took me about 45 sec to just open Paint for a screenshot, etc. So, I might be gone or a few days now, when backup up and reinstalling everything. Will update my Norton Internet Security as well as I suspect an infection  :flame:


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Posted 02 January 2016 - 04:36 PM

Probably every other year. Mostly a habit of old ("omg, your computer will be so much faster after you do"), but it's nice to start clean every once in a while.


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Posted 02 January 2016 - 04:36 PM

Remember to backup everything! Backup Backup Backup!


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Posted 02 January 2016 - 05:36 PM

Nah, I enjoy that gut wrenching feeling when you realize you vaporized some critically important files that you can never return! It's like a bad plot twist in a sub-par drama film. Wonderful experience.
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Posted 02 January 2016 - 06:06 PM

Will update my Norton Internet Security as well as I suspect an infection  :flame:

Norton IS the infection :p
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Posted 02 January 2016 - 08:43 PM

Well, gotta have some kind of protection and unlike older Nortons I never had any issues with this verson (2010).

While backing up now, it just keeps getting worse... After opening a few folders, everything just freeze... lol.

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Posted 02 January 2016 - 08:45 PM

Apart from false positives, Symantec products also eat up a lot of resources, so there's your answer :p

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Posted 02 January 2016 - 08:48 PM

zBrush runs fine (oddly enough) and I can juggle models with 5 million polygons with ease

 

 

Yeah, Max eats up RAM like anything, but zBrush is ridiculously efficient.
Also, how do you guys get viruses? I've not got any for years, and I've got no antivirus software and Microsoft's active-scan is off most of the time.


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Posted 02 January 2016 - 10:06 PM

They get viruses because they've got bad porn habits. Obviously.


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Posted 03 January 2016 - 12:35 AM

Obviously.

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