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Windows: Goodbye, McAfee, Hello Avast!
Windows 10 started lagging for me again. Checking the Task Manager, I saw that McAfee Module Core Service was using huge amounts of memory and disk was 100% again (probably due to swapping/thrashing). It is time to remove McAfee. To … Continue reading
Windows 10 Performance: Disk at 100%
Windows 10 was lagging like crazy this morning. I opened the Task Manager (using Ctrl-Alt-Del) and discovered that the disk was running 100% of the time. I tried a bunch of things described in How to Fix: 100% Disk Usage … Continue reading
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Tagged google chrome, memory 100%, prediction service, superfetch service, task manager, windows 10, windows search
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Major Security Flaw in Intel CPUs
Have you heard how the Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign? This could be the biggest hardware security flaw I’ve ever heard of. Programmers are scrambling to overhaul the open-source Linux kernel’s virtual memory system. Meanwhile, Microsoft … Continue reading
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Tagged intel cpus, linux kernel, microsoft windows, security flaw
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Free Software for Windows
I’m a big fan of free software. Now that I’m (at least temporarily) back on Windows (10), I’m finding the Windows equivalents of all of the applications I grew to love on Linux. Here’s a list of them, which I’ll … Continue reading
Windows 7: Time for an Enema
I had to use a Windows 7 lap top that was unusably slow. Here’s how I got it performing slightly better (only one of the two CPUs is being pegged by crappy Windows 7 services now). To see what’s running: … Continue reading
