windows 8 coming soon

[Duke Nukem]

Just thought I would post some pictures of the final result. One thing you should know about me: Pedantic OCD freak!

(All personal information removed)

Desktop, nice & clean



Start Menu, perfectly set up



Start Menu part deux



Dolphin goodness



System



Temperatures (Taken from AIDA64) Nice & cool temps!

[DefenderX]

AWESOME

[Duke Nukem]

Thanks man

The only thing that bugs me is that I can't pin Jpcsp (Sony PSP which lies on the Desktop) to the Start Menu because obviously BAT files ain't allowed for some reason (yeah I know I changed the icon to make it look more like an application)

I try my best to restrain my OCD there. But it's clean enough I suppose.

[ExtremeDude2]

le wild .bat to .exe program has appeared! (don't worry, es legit :3)

http://www.f2ko.de/programs.php?lang=en&pid=b2e

[AnyOldName3]

I used a .bat to .exe program once. I didn't achieve my desired result, which, of course, was a desktop icon which looked like a normal, terrible almost web browser, namely internet explorer, but instead opened as many instances of internet explorer as your RAM could contain. The intention was to make my father stop using IE, and switch to Chrome, as such a massive 'bug' would be awful.

[dEnigma]

(01-10-2013, 10:45 PM)Duke Nukem Wrote:

(01-10-2013, 09:31 PM)lamedude Wrote: Don't forget dos=high to free 64K of conventional memory. I gave up on that getting every last MB years ago. MS said Win8 a lot of those services aren't loaded until they're used and I haven't jumped on the SSD bandwagon so few extra GB's doesn't bother me.
The only reason I would use 2K12 for is ReFS.

Sadly, there are a few caveats with ReFS. Unlike the move from FAT to NTFS on the desktop, there will be no way to convert an existing volume to ReFS without creating a new volume and copying the data manually. There's no support for booting from ReFS, with NTFS being retained as the file system of choice for boot drives; and you can't use ReFS on removable drives.

EDIT: Hopefully a future Service Pack will change this because ReFS sounds really interesting.

Also deduplication doesn't work with ReFS, if you need that

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(01-11-2013, 09:56 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: I used a .bat to .exe program once. I didn't achieve my desired result, which, of course, was a desktop icon which looked like a normal, terrible almost web browser, namely internet explorer, but instead opened as many instances of internet explorer as your RAM could contain. The intention was to make my father stop using IE, and switch to Chrome, as such a massive 'bug' would be awful.

So that's where people get the notion that IE is bad^^

[lamedude]

That Windows install is too bloated. Come back after you've done a server core install.
You can't dedup system/boot volumes either. I usually create hard/sym links for my big dup files. The no deduping of <32KB files means it wouldn't be useful for source code (those Dolphin branches take a lot of space).

[Duke Nukem]

@lamedude

Ha ha yeah the Server Core option was tempting, but to inconvenient I'm afraid.


I decided to experiment this weekend turning off the heat in my room. It was -7 degrees outside and it was around 10-15 degrees Celsius in the room after a few hours and after a cold boot of the rig the CPU was idling at cool 8 degrees Celsius, after a while it was idling at 13-14 degrees.
The absolute lowest one of the four cores were right at startup was 4 degrees Celsius. Is that some kind of record or something?

I've heard about it's bad if the CPU is overheating but, underheating, is there even such a thing?

I have 20 degrees Celsius in my room now, and the CPU is back to 20-21 degrees just like the pic I posted here.

[AnyOldName3]

With liquid N2 cooling you can get below the cold boot limit of a CPU, and it simply doesn't turn on until it's warmed up a bit.

[Gir]

After using Windows 8 for nearly a Year, I can tell it sucks, it is worst then Windows Vista.

Microsoft as catered Windows 8 for Touchscreens, yet it seem they are unaware that people still use "Desktop PCs" , they should have included the option to utterly remove that ridiculous Metro app and regain functionality and usability of Windows 7.

They have made Direct X 11.1 exclusive to Windows 8, they pretty much out to annoy people.