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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
As to performance, type Privacy Settings in the Cortana box, one opened select Background apps at bottom. There are reams and reams of apps there all on, why on earth is there Candy crush soda saga(?), deselect any as you see fit.
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
The golden key to (dis)AllowTelemetry:
----------------------------------------A) Type regedit in the run box B) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\DataCollection Edit, or create a REG_DWORD key called AllowTelemetry and give it the value of choice: Values: 0 = OFF 1= Basic 2 = Enhanced 3 = Full MS on non-pro/enteprise versions, many most will have Home, only allowed Basic as lowest choice. Not so, with a little DIY laughing Edit: Forward on the red text comment at top of the Feedback Hub is Some settings are managed by your organization The Diagnostics and Feedback selector is grayed out. Enjoy [Edit 1 times, last edit by SekeRob* at Aug 22, 2016 10:19:49 AM] |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
Here is a piece of the performance puzzle: Fire up Process Explorer and look at the VM allocation of the regular processes such as WmiPrvSE and svchost. If it is 2GB, yes 2GB, you will be onto something, as I see reams of them having this (on several W10 systems)
4 things I did on the troubled laptop: 1) Visited the performance options > advanced > change and found some preposterous limits in context to the monster allocations, such as a minimum of 16Mb and an actual (auto) allocated 6GB, where the system has 8GB RAM. Most all literature advises on setting a minimum of 1.5x RAM as size, but not wanting over the top set the minimum at 8GB and max at 16GB. For top performance of the swap file it's best to have an exclusive partition, which prevents fragmentation (Something Linux does autonomously, out of the box) 2) Do not log in, or when done sign-out... Windows loves to start piles and piles of background processes if you do and particularly when you stop using the device. 3) Do not switch off Search indexing, but do exclude areas such as the BOINC data dir, which is quite dynamic, as are browsing cache/history areas. Initially it will take a long time for this process to settle down, but after that the interface works spiffy. 4) Homegroups eats piles of time (Networking still drags down Windows systems). Break it, and set up network shares instead. Homegroup perpetually tracks what's in the shared areas on other machines, which eats time. Notably, found signing out (all sessions) does put homegroup updating in stasis as well. You're borged with that approach as it will make GPU computing hard... BOINC needs installing as service as else it will not run while signed out. Now I have according BOINCTasks 99.8+% efficiency, remotely monitoring while the system is not being 'used'. Nothing less is acceptable  Oh BTW, just before there was also another big cumulative AU patch arriving, and Edge is still broken (great, it crashes within seconds of firing up, so Windows help on the internet remains impossible... every help click that needs to pull info from the intertubes goes nowhere. |
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KerSamson
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Hi SekeRob,
----------------------------------------I would like to propose you for a PhD in "Microsoft Windows science"  Yves --- Even if I am not using W10, I thank you for the detailed information and tricks you report here. |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
Per W10-64 AU Home, build 14393.82, the last patch did some interesting stuff on top http://borncity.com/win/2016/08/24/update-kb3...versary-update/#more-1305 to include
Improved reliability of Network Controller, DNS server, gateways, Storage Spaces Direct, Group Managed Service Accounts, remote procedure calls (RPC), PowerShell, Internet Explorer 11, printer pairing and interoperability, the Windows kernel, Media Core, Windows Store, Connected Standby, Cluster Health service, the Hypervisor debugger and platform, and Active Directory. Edge is still broken, but managed to get a few support call function to now open in Firefox 48.0.1 by altering some defaults.Improved performance of Storage Spaces Direct with many nodes or disks, scrolling lists on Xbox One, DHCP address acquisition, Active Directory queries, and Cluster Health service. The BOINCTasks result history bares witness (last column)... when I wrote + behind 99.8%, I meant plus :-) 7.28 ugm1 ugm1_ugm1_27368_1555_1 05:29:17 (05:28:39) 8/24/2016 7:26:25 AM 8/24/2016 7:30:25 AM 99,81 |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
Since UGM has rather large output files, been experimenting with the Write to Disk setting, and find that between 10 minutes and 15 minutes 'at most', gave a 0.1 to 0.2% differential on the final result taking near 6 hours... slow spinning drive. The coupling to an SSD as buffer (peak shaving as it is called in the energy industry), is broken since W10 installation, and nothing I do allows me to reinstall/activate the Intel RST feature on the laptop. Since I moved the 'workstation' function to my desktop, the laptop is now exclusive cruncher when not on the road, 24/24 plus battery as UPS, so WtD can be anything.
Linux not an option... I find that Linux causes the operating temps to explode, there is just no easy/convenient controlling like there exists on Windows on laptops. |
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Former Member
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The coupling to an SSD as buffer (peak shaving as it is called in the energy industry), is broken since W10 installation, and nothing I do allows me to reinstall/activate the Intel RST feature on the laptop. That's frustrating. It's not the outcome with all upgrades to W10 - my i7-4770K has a 64GB SSD as cache (Intel Smart Response Technology?) to an ancient Maxtor DiamondMax10 SATA2 250GB HDD and works well. To run Intel RST, I need to be in an administrator account, though. |
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SekeRob
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That Intel RTS failing was a surprise and disappointment, as it did work on my 4770 too [now my workstation]. Still 99.8+, some incidental UGM even hitting 99.90%... not bad, but
Windows ten is not a glass half full or half empty product... it's half baked. Yesterday happened on a post , 5 seconds after release, that AU 14393.103 is out now... some Anniversary Update, and every time loads of time wasted in applying. This time they broke powershell http://betanews.com/2016/08/25/windows-10-update-breaks-powershell/ AND Edge is still broken ... just the blue screen with the E for a few seconds and gone... nothing in the event viewer to be found to trace what's happening, Ludicrous.  |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
One of the things I do, fully legitimately, is copy the Music CD's to the harddrive, to play off the media system, the tools to do so are provided by the very same, but today we find that the intrusiveness of Microsoft has taken on a new meaning (to me)
 Think it's time for a little class action suite.  |
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Dataman
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One of the things I do, fully legitimately, is copy the Music CD's to the harddrive, to play off the media system, the tools to do so are provided by the very same, but today we find that the intrusiveness of Microsoft has taken on a new meaning (to me) Think it's time for a little class action suite. To quote the "Soup Nazi" from Seinfield: NO SOUP FOR YOU!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soup_Nazi  |
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