my windows desktop has slowed down. I know reinstalling the operating system will make it much faster, however I am not looking forward to reconfiguring and reinstalling all software. Any suggestions that dont involve switching to a different OS?
ninite if reinstalling makes it faster.
ie it makes it easy to install stuff
is it windows 10
for me i seem to be hitting gpu leaking issues again.
and chrome is a big offender.  restarting chrome regularly helps.  i have 32gb of ram, so normal ram is ok, but i only have 4gb of video ram i think.
disable hardware acceleration
that fixed the mem leak issue in Chrome for me
static: for some reason it was behaving itself for a while
it's kind of shocking that this is still happening.  but yeah maybe should disable hardware accel.
i gave up on hw acceleration on browsers a while back, have it disabled on ff and chrome
ff actually triggered a driver failsafe condition in windows once because it crashed the driver so many times
mercutio: problematic to fix bugs in stuff like that since it involves interaction with 3rd party codebase
all sorts of weird bugs
the video drivers?
yeah
i have flash disabled in chrome
mercutio: windows 8
8.1 rather
mnathani_: you could try upgrading to 10
you don't need to reinstall
and it's free
i'm using start8 with 10 still too :)
if you're not using start8 with windows 8 you could try that too
i just uninstalled flash today, gonna see how that goes
tried it a while back and found that lots of stuff i actually wanted to see needed it
and yt's html5 player was bad at the time. now it's a lot better, so i'm hopeful maybe i won't need it anymore
what browser?
cos chrome had flash built in if I am not mistaken
chrome you can still disable it
^
s/can/should/
<mercutio> chrome you should still disable it
security reasons?
yea, and it should just die
one day we will be saying that about ipv4
i wish it would die because i'm sick of nat
did you see the ipv6 nat vmware article
https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-29954
IPv6 NAT Support - We are very excited about our improvements around IP networking, with added support for IPv6 Network Address Translation (IPv6 NAT). You can set up an IPv6 network between multiple virtual machines regardless of whether the external network is IPv4 or IPv6. To use IPv6 NAT, create a new custom network and select using NAT, then check “Enable IPv6”. You can also set
the prefix of the IPv6 address for each IPv6 NAT network in the Virtual Network Editor.
huh
Flash should just die. But something to keep in mind is that Chrome's Flash hasn't been susceptible to most (all? I think) of the recent Flash security holes due to it being run completely sandboxed.
just need a nice sandbox escape vuln
heh
at any rate, flash is lame
and the only flash stuff i regularly see is lame news video players and stuff that i block w/ghostery
I heard/read somewhere that Google has spent more time "developing" Flash than Adobe have lately.
wouldn't surprise me
That's what she said!!
they're also spearheading phasing flash out
read something that they're not allowing swf based ads on adwords anymore
or one of those ad networks they run
i never liked flash
Flash was great until it was misused
In my perspective, Flash died a decade ago and since then it's been a Dead Man's Party at Weekend At Bernie's
hahaha, yeah
it was sort of a necessary evil early on, since rich media was in its infancy
on the web nayway
anyway
Never had Flash installed. Had to watch Homestar Runner at my friends' places.
m0unds: kind of like realplayer? :)
m0unds: I began working with Flash in the late 90s, Flash 3, and it was groundbreaking to have that kind of vector-based interactive vibrance available.  Macromedia did an incredible job with optimization, and then the bitmap/video stuff came and that's when I left off doing Flash dev
I've been disappointed to see the misapplication of Flash as a heavy media transport rather than an interactive vector engine
I have fond memories of the early Flash dev scene, frowny face
At least I didn't waste my time on WAP or XHTML
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