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 Discussion on question by End Antisem…

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Mokubai
Sep 12, 2024 16:08
For me this is vaguely opinion based because we cannot know the size of any random Windows update or the amount of software that Windows will install for your system. Graphics drivers can be a 400MB download, which may well take a larger space when unpacked and installed, and just plugging in a printer will download and install various other drivers and helper programs. Then there are updates for all the programs bundled with the system that get downloaded by the Windows store and the amount and size of updates will change as time goes on. To me the answer is "as much as you can give it".
Mokubai
Sep 12, 2024 16:08
"AI could not document how it reached to such conclusions" because it did not reach those conclusions, it is a word salad generator, not an actual intelligence that is able to reason and tell you things from a factual perspective. It has taken in a lot of correlated information and spits out vaguely correlated output. Current "AI" is not capable of the level of intelligence required to actually have a clue what you are asking it.
 

 Discussion on question by George Ntou…

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Mokubai
Sep 11, 2024 19:52
What you are talking about is known as integer scaling and yes program or hardware can do it if it wants to and is correctly set up.
 

 Discussion on question by thethiny: W…

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Mokubai
May 7, 2024 07:10
From pool tags EtwB is an "Etw Buffer" which suggests that some eventlog weirdness is consuming memory. Maybe superuser.com/questions/1155986/… could help? or answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/…
Mokubai
May 7, 2024 07:10
@thethiny can you show the CPU tab of task manager performance menu
Mokubai
May 7, 2024 07:10
Have you rebooted recently? Not shutdown, an actual reboot.
 

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Mokubai
May 6, 2024 22:26
I was wondering what set them off and then saw your comment here and it became obvious that their comments are sarcastically imitating yours so just nuking the lot is for the best. Hopefully they had their 5 minutes of fun and will leave it at that.
Mokubai
May 6, 2024 22:21
@music2myear I've made all the comments go away, including yours I'm afraid. At the moment I don't think anything more needs to happen unless they get properly annoyed and take it further. If so just flag again and we will deal.
Mokubai
Jun 28, 2023 16:32
@r2d3 please don't edit spam, just flag it and move on. At best what you are doing is pointless, and at worst you are wasting peoples time because they then have to figure out why you edited it before flagging.
Mokubai
Apr 25, 2023 20:37
@CanadianLuke The timeline should still show you who closed it... webapps.stackexchange.com/posts/170312/timeline
Mokubai
Mar 16, 2023 22:48
@Giacomo1968 it's nothing to do with computers and while actual medical help may be relevant in some cases it doesn't feel like it is here. nuked.
Mokubai
Feb 13, 2023 20:00
@theguitarman this chat room is specific to the Super User site. You may want to ask at chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/20352/math-mods-office or math.meta.stackexchange.com
Mokubai
Jan 18, 2023 13:15
The only way for an image to disappear is for it to be redacted and that would require another mod to approve. There is no sign that redaction appened and I wouldn't have requested it.
Mokubai
Jan 18, 2023 13:14
It's all there at superuser.com/posts/1763277/revisions
Mokubai
Jan 18, 2023 13:12
Your original revision shows no pictures superuser.com/revisions/6384d99b-26af-45ca-93c5-ec4c81e136f9/…
Mokubai
Jan 18, 2023 13:12
@barlop nope didn't edit it or change anything. Just converted to edit. Shouldn't have changed anything or formatted it differently. All it is was a delete AFAIK.
Mokubai
Jan 18, 2023 12:07
I wasn't meaning that to sound as harsh as it did. I think you just need to think about how to rephrase the answer to be less vague and put stuff that belongs in the question in the question. I don't see why you think it doesn't belong there or why it would make it "worse".
Mokubai
Jan 18, 2023 12:03
It's already been downvoted, not by me, but at the moment it feels it deserves that downvote.
Mokubai
Jan 18, 2023 12:01
@barlop i can undelete it for now, but without a lot of reworking of the language it still sounds like vague follow on question material. There's nothing stopping it from being flagged again and deleted yet again. The time to improve your answer is now in all honesty, not some nebulous "in the future"
Mokubai
Jan 18, 2023 11:48
Basically I would remove the first three paragraphs of your "answer" as they are still question based fault-finding. The remainder of your answer being made a more firm "it appears that..." could solidify it for me as a proper answer.
Mokubai
Jan 18, 2023 11:47
@barlop the answer reads like vague "maybe" something happened but maybe didn't and there's no way of knowing. I read through it 3 or 4 times before I converted it to an edit so it wasn't a spur of the moment thing... "if I could simulate a crash to test" is almost certainly something for the question, as is "my recent testing" and "it looks to me".
Mokubai
Jan 4, 2023 18:16
Fair enough. My problem was with the "where can I find", so if you want to and can ask without that side then go for it
Mokubai
Jan 4, 2023 18:13
@Ramhound feel free to edit. At the moment it is saying "where can I find a document that shows x" which is basically a learning material resource.
 

 Discussion on question by Dale Newton…

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Mokubai
Mar 25, 2024 01:02
"Windows is supposed to operate normally without a page file as long as ram is available." No, it isn't. It is expected to have a pagefile available and to use it by default. Your expectations are not what Microsoft sets as a default. Physical memory being available is not the same as virtual memory being available and applications can essentially "steal" virtual memory they never use because it is expected that you have a page file to allow virtual memory to expand to pick up the slack. By disabling the pagefile you limit virtual memory to your physical memory size where commit matters.
Mokubai
Mar 25, 2024 01:02
Potentially being written to the page file and actually being written are two different things. Programs are able to mark special areas of memory as "non-pageable" so unless your program is particularly badly written any sensitive data should not go near the page file. Just a quick glance at one of your links it appears that it is talking about passwords in the code itself, which is indeed very bad practice. The same goes for programs opening files containing sensitive data. If you have a program with access to sensitive data then the pagefile is the least of your worries.
Mokubai
Mar 25, 2024 01:02
The amount of memory available in a Windows system is technically the commit charge. Lots of programs over-allocate memory that they don't use and without the page file Windows cannot honour over-allocations of committed memory. As an example Chrome may only be physically using 1GB of RAM, but it can commit 2GB or far more and without a page file Windows cannot claim that it has storage (Physical RAM or pagefile) available to fulfil all that commit charge. Unlike Linux Windows does not over-commit virtual memory. The result is that by disabling the page file you are wasting physical RAM.
Mokubai
Mar 25, 2024 01:02
superuser.com/q/482678/19943 is relevant. You can also see what programs are using high levels of virtual memory (commit charge) from superuser.com/questions/1372258/…
Mokubai
Mar 25, 2024 01:02
If you disable the page file then "out of memory" errors are expected.
 

 Discussion on question by Daniel Kapl…

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Mokubai
Sep 21, 2023 08:49
The 19041 in your driver version suggests that your operating system is very far out of date. 19041 corresponds to Windows 10 May 2020 Update (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history) and it may be that there is some bug that could be fixed by updating your OS... Could be some odd software interaction of a generic driver and cheap firmware within the headset that might be fixed by an update.
 

 Root Access

For all you Super Users out there. You have backups, right?
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Mokubai
Sep 19, 2023 22:20
Meta is the place to ask for change, not chat, but I haven't seen much interest in retracting the stance on software recommendations. The Super User community generally prefers more solid questions than "can someone go find me a product"
Mokubai
Sep 19, 2023 22:19
@bmike We are not Ask Different and our stance on software recommendations hasn't changed because there is already a better place for them at softwarerecs.stackexchange.com
 

 Discussion on answer by John: Can rev…

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Mokubai
Aug 5, 2023 23:24
Resetting the CMOS will clear all settings and most likely will load the defaults. Note that "defaults" are not necessarily the same as "optimised defaults" as plain defaults may be the absolute safest options while optimised may be "most likely safe" but may include some tweaks and performance improving options.
 

 Discussion on question by Invictus: W…

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Mokubai
Aug 3, 2023 15:55
Read through the comments on my answer at the duplicate. It is a PCI slot with extra pins for a riser card, probably for power or extra slot detection.
Mokubai
Aug 3, 2023 15:55
duplicate: superuser.com/questions/1689777/pcie-connectors-dont-match-u‌​p/…
 

♦ Recycle Bin

A bin, for recycling stuff. Move all offtopic/unrelated/non-un...
Mokubai
Jul 1, 2023 19:58
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Mokubai
Jun 29, 2023 15:20
There's gonna be a lot of clean-up later. I hope.
Mokubai
Jun 29, 2023 15:19
I just stumbled across and well, this seems like a good idea.
 

 Discussion on question by user1801482…

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Mokubai
May 21, 2023 17:32
Most likely your computer does not have enough RAM. While the figure shown is 84% likely the OS is using a lot of time to push data to and from the swap file. Chrome is triggering this but is not the only cause.
 

 Discussion on question by TrickyZerg:…

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Mokubai
May 4, 2023 14:40
The HP Manual for your computer also says that the SATA ports are colour coded and that the white ports are SATA 2 h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03347207.pdf
Mokubai
May 4, 2023 14:40
@TrickyZerg It would be helpful to have information like that in your question. It feels like we are trying to tease important information out of you that would help define what and where the problem is.
Mokubai
May 4, 2023 14:40
Especially note that the Intel C210 Chipset information page shows that while you may well have 6 SATA ports, only 2 of them are 6.0 Gb/s SATA 3.0: i.stack.imgur.com/JL9dh.png so there is a high likelihood that one of those three ports is only SATA 2, i.e. 3Gbps. Again, your motherboard manual would tell you which.
Mokubai
May 4, 2023 14:40
winaero.com/find-motherboard-model-linux suggests that dmidecode -t 2 should show your motherboard model which should assist you in finding your manual. It is entirely possible that the colours simply denote "This is port 1" "This is port 2" and so on, but often it is used to indicate capability differences and what it means is absolutely 100% something that should be found out.
Mokubai
May 4, 2023 14:40
@TrickyZerg The fact that those ports are differently coloured is absolutely a concern and one that only the motherboard manual is likely to clear up. Someone went to the effort of choosing three different connectors, and that then got through the various checks and cost reduction exercises that would have said "do you really need 3 different colours when 1 colour for all three would save us $5,000 across a production run?" Someone wanted to say "THERE IS SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THESE CONNECTORS" Hence why I mentioned your motherboard manual and that we cannot see a part number.
Mokubai
May 4, 2023 14:40
Some older computer have a mixture of SATA 3Gbps and 6Gbps ports, and what speed you get may depend on what port you plug the drive into. You should consult your motherboard manual to find out what ports support what speeds. I cannot see a part number on that low quality image but the different coloured SATA sockets makes me believe that this may be the problem.
 

 Discussion on question by GwenKillerb…

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Mokubai
Mar 22, 2023 10:37
Much has changed behind the scenes in 14 years
Mokubai
Mar 22, 2023 10:36
@GwenKillerby personally I'd say your best option is to use a more modern torrent client and not one from 2009. It sounds like some behaviour change in Windows and the 1.8 client caused some issues that some people were angry about back then forum.utorrent.com/topic/…
Mokubai
Mar 22, 2023 08:21
Your RAMMap screenshot shows an astounding 25GB of mapped files, so the next thing to do is to look at the "file summary" tab and see what exactly is mapped in there. If there is a huge mapped file (or a large number of mapped files belonging to one application) then we need to work out what owns it.
Mokubai
Mar 22, 2023 08:21
@GwenKillerby no one wants adverts, but your question states you have an old version of the browser as if that is part of the problem. An up to date browser with something like uBlock Origin can achieve the same without issue. RAMMap may give a better view of what is actually using your memory because it certainly isn't "caching" that is the problem.
Mokubai
Mar 22, 2023 08:21
Your image does not show high "cached" memory at all, it shows you have high "committed" RAM, as in RAM that has been allocated by a program. Something about your use pattern or programs is using memory and not releasing it and without more information we cannot guess what that might be. How much memory do you see your browsers actually using? What other programs are running? It might be worth resetting each program to defaults and removing extensions for them all to see if the problem persists with fresh and known good versions.
Mokubai
Mar 22, 2023 08:21
It is unlikely that "cached" memory is the problem. More likely is that some program or driver on your system has a memory leak. Firefox should be able to play YouTube commercials, and if it is "too old" then you should update it. Try using RAMMap learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/rammap to find out what is actually using your memory.