Category Archives: computing

Windows: Goodbye, McAfee, Hello Avast!

Posted on 2018-04-05 by

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 →

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Windows 10 Performance: Disk at 100%

Posted on 2018-03-30 by

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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Major Security Flaw in Intel CPUs

Posted on 2018-01-03 by

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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Free Software for Windows

Posted on 2018-01-01 by

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 →

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Windows 10 for People Who Hate Windows

Posted on 2017-12-28 by

I hate Windows. I haven’t run it since the day my Windows Vista laptop took an update and bricked itself. Since then, I’ve run Ubuntu and Linux Mint Debian Edition. I just got a new Dell Inspirion 17/5000, which comes … Continue reading →

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Windows 7: Time for an Enema

Posted on 2016-07-05 by

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 →

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