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As a new forum member (well active member) and learning for an IT career I work with a lot of more elderly people and fix there computers as they not able to most of the time and that most computer shops cost way to much Its that I have to explain that when there computer has a virus and then have to explain that it doesn't mean instant death or that they have to throw there computer away.

Yeah I think this boils down to a lot of people not knowing the difference between the OS + software, and the physical hardware

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So much of what I see on the forum these days can go into this thread...

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i was on YouTube just now, being bored, so i just tried serching up some random stuff. there was a video where a guy said "...OR, buy a better computer." then some guy replied "Everyone ain't got the money to do so. Also, 3k computers are mostly shitty"

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you can clearly still see the orb underneath...

 

Never noticed that before . but I would say it is the background to the Sonic image rather than the Sonic image is laid over the start orb

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My PC boots up in around 30 seconds with a Seagate Barracude. Windows 10

My laptop boots up in around 20 seconds with the HDD. Windows 8.1

 

my PC boots in 5 seconds on an 850evo 500gb windows 10 xD

 

 

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my PC boots in 5 seconds on an 850evo 500gb windows 10 xD

My pc takes about 10 mins to get to a useable state. the first 5 get me to the sign in page and the next 5 is getting to the desktop and waiting for everything that is in the background to load.

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This, in my opinion, is the only true way to deal with someone who just won't stop. I'm generally a nice, non-violent person bu there are some people in my school who are just gonna push me off the edge and are gonna finally get what's coming to them. Someday...

 

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did you get this quote from what its actually from or just from doctor who?

 

 

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My pc takes about 10 mins to get to a useable state. the first 5 get me to the sign in page and the next 5 is getting to the desktop and waiting for everything that is in the background to load.

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did you get this quote from what its actually from or just from doctor who?

 

 

Eh?  I thought the poem was written by Steven Moffat for the doctor Who episode.

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Eh?  I thought the poem was written by Steven Moffat for the doctor Who episode.

 

oh i thought steven moffat ripped it off but im not sure

 

 

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did you get this quote from what its actually from or just from doctor who?

 

Ahh... DW.

Eh?  I thought the poem was written by Steven Moffat for the doctor Who episode.

 

 

And Yeah I thought that as well. It's still a good quote though, Holds true imho

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My pc takes about 10 mins to get to a useable state. the first 5 get me to the sign in page and the next 5 is getting to the desktop and waiting for everything that is in the background to load.

My PC takes a while to get to the working state too... Usually it's 5-7 minutes
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My PC takes a while to get to the working state too... Usually it's 5-7 minutes

My PC ends up in the desktop in 54.75 seconds after a cold boot, but takes a few mins for it to warm up and be responsive enough for usage, like opening chrome

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My PC ends up in the desktop in 54.75 seconds after a cold boot, but takes a few mins for it to warm up and be responsive enough for usage, like opening chrome

 

Every time I hear someone saying that they need to wait for things to be usable after logging on, I can only assume they're not running on SSDs because to me this behaviour is a painful but thankfully distant memory :)

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Pretty much sum up what I find when fixing friend's laptop...

What I usually say to them...

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wow, this thread still exists?

Yep. Apparently so. But almost never on topic like the early days.

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My PC ends up in the desktop in 54.75 seconds after a cold boot, but takes a few mins for it to warm up and be responsive enough for usage, like opening chrome

Yeah, my PC does most the same thing, so from like a month I put it into sleep mode instead of turning it off... But my PC takes like a minute to get out from Sleep mode which sucks... But atleast I don't have to wait so long till it's usable [emoji4]
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Yeah, my PC does most the same thing, so from like a month I put it into sleep mode instead of turning it off... But my PC takes like a minute to get out from Sleep mode which sucks... But atleast I don't have to wait so long till it's usable [emoji4]

How on earth does it take a minute to wake from sleep!?

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How on earth does it take a minute to wake from sleep!?

Mine takes approximately 30-45 seconds to wake from sleep.

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Mine takes approximately 30-45 seconds to wake from sleep.

Like, from suspend to RAM... standby?  Not hibernation?  What is going on here...  :wacko:

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Like, from suspend to RAM... standby?  Not hibernation?  What is going on here...  :wacko:

In windows 10, the sleep option takes around 30 seconds to resume, from the time I press the power button to the time the desktop appears.

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In windows 10, the sleep option takes around 30 seconds to resume, from the time I press the power button to the time the desktop appears.

that's insane, you could resume from hibernation that fast.  Are you sure that's not what it's doing?  Try hitting just the keyboard next time.  If that doesn't wake it up, you're not in standby :)

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that's insane, you could resume from hibernation that fast.  Are you sure that's not what it's doing?  Try hitting just the keyboard next time.  If that doesn't wake it up, you're not in standby :)

I guess it's in hibernation.

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