Redfern posted at 6:04 PM Fri, 17 March 2023 - #4458892

TwiztidKidd posted at 5:47 PM Fri, 17 March 2023 - #4458890

One thing to keep an eye out for is... old laptops. The battery in a 10-yr old laptop will start expanding eventually. If it starts doing that, then carefully take the battery out before it starts to bend the MB or other parts.

Mine is an AC powered tower unit I purchased in December of 2021, so the issue you've described wouldn't affect me.  Still, it's something to consider for lithium cell powered devices.

If you are not aware of this, you have an excuse: many people ignores the fact that since Win10 on, turning off the computer does not turns it really off, it's a kind of deep hibernation in which the power unit is really off, but your Windows, when it's restarted, is rebooted with most programs off but the resources not refreshed. If Windows was overloaded, it's still  there

Let me give you a real example. I work in a company in which we provide custom-based solutions of an ERP. Like most ERP's, it's working using one of the worst programs that can exist on each computer, whatever the operating system: the browser (they are all absolute nightmares in terms of resources, the difference being made by the OS itself)

That being said, one day the IT of one of my customers called me: all PCs were running the application fine, except one.
Upon talking with the user, I understood that yes: she turns off her computer correctly.
"Launch the task manager in advanced mode, look near the bottom of the Performances tab, and tell me how long it has been working?"

A few seconds later... "178 days"

I almost fall down of my chair, laughing... Win10 still running more or less correctly after that interval of time? wow...

Microsoft is efficient at one and only thing: marketing. I'm a long-time Windows user and I pretty much know that resources are a weak point since day one, version 1.0...
The only thing you must not forget with Windows: restart each 3 to 6 days depending on how much resources you've used. I've the same Win10 installation since 4 years (in July) and I remark that when Windows or even Poser starts to behave weirdly or starts to take an abnormally long time to loaf things, it means that I need to reboot the poor Windows.
And no, for personal reasons, Apple's machines aren't going to be a solution any soon, and Linux not more as long as I can't use Poser+OS+nVidia correctly and straightforwardly 

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