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Thread: It's Microsoft's reboot your PC day... again |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Just a little reminder to download the latest security fixes from Microsoft again for our Windows Powered Crunching Buddies.
----------------------------------------Keep that OS in tip top shape and keep on crunching Dave  |
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Former Member
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Just the other day I had to defrag my hard drive again. I noticed things were getting a little sluggish, but I had defragged only recently - but it doesn't take long when you're a heavy user like myself.
In the end, I reformatted one of my drives, and put a nice big fixed size page file on it. So, while Microsoft are doing their thing, today might be a good day for a bit of a tune-up. |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi D
----------------------------------------MS have sent me Win2K3 R2 in my action pack subscription. You mentioned it in a recent thread I had re my server and the ill fitting memory stick  Should I upgrade? Any idea's of the benefits of R2? Or is it just a rolled up security pack release? This and many more questions Dave |
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Former Member
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I don't think that was me. Personally, though, I would make plans to migrate at some convenient time, if only because of the benefit of rolled up security updates. A clean system is a happy system :-)
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I could use a bigger hard drive on there but I think I wait.
----------------------------------------MS's site on R2 doesn't point to a compelling reason to upgrade just yet it's all distributed management and support for Unix interworking (It's like turning an oil tanker ) I have none of the problems aboveI might just wait for Vista (patience is a virtue) and go straight to 64 bit. My Motto really should be "If it isn't baroque, don't fix it"  |
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Former Member
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That's a good motto. Not that I have anything against Baroque, of course. But my favourite styles are Georgian and Perpendicular Gothic. (But not mixed! Not even in the same city, ideally. London's big enough for both, but that's an exception.)
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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At last an insane soul mate
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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btw I've just noticed the MAC client is now an official WCG download.
----------------------------------------Tell all of your cool friends  .Just waiting for the official official announcement |
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Former Member
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Done and done! Looks like the sign-up improvements are live, too.
I'm all excited. Have to ask Illiad for a bit of front page shazam! again. |
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Johnny Cool
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Post Count: 8621 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I wonder how many people who downloaded those Microsoft critical patches have "right click" freezes? My guess is quite a few ...
---------------------------------------- KB908531's VerCLSID.exe causes freeze Removed only KB908531 via Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs/Select Google searches about this Microsoft Help Group Most of these problems *seem* to happen with people who have certain HP printers. Like me. I just uninstalled KB908531 and everything is back to normal. |
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