man, extreme jump in system performance after turning that stuff off.
though this thing looks like windows XP now, (i think i like it like this,)



this thing is a beast compared to my old one too,

On another note,
AMD radeon HD 6520g confirmed working with construct

I do that too! :​D

*high five*

that stuff shouldn't really affect your performance much (or to any noticeable degree anyway) on a new computer (especially one with a dedicated video card). I'm guessing you run a bunch of other background processes tho

funny you'd mention it looks like XP when XP is the first windows release to ship with something other than windows Classic as the default. It's more like 2000 than anything- but even more, I don't think there's any difference at all between Vista and 7's Windows Classic

it shouldn't, but it did.
fact be it, it actually did speed up the boot time and file access rates by a rather significant chunk.

ive been trying to minimize the crap running in the background (taskbar trash and unneeded processes)
MS-config, Reg-edit, and add/remove programs has helped at that aspect.

not to mention the first thing to go was that god awful overpriced and worthless pain in the ass antivirus NORTON.
which began b****ing as soon as i booted this thing up for the first time.

Avast may take its fair share, but at least it works,

then their is the rest of it all, the stuff that they put on to make it idiot proof, sure, i can see somone who didnt know what they were doing breaking the thing at the click of a mouse, but for what i like to do, i kinda need to get in to the dangerous stuff.

uninstall this
uninstall that,
uninstall uninstall uninstall,

then add the stuff you need that's actually worth a crap.

open MSconfig and dissable a bunch of system services that dont do anything except eat more resources, and dissable all the pointless visuals for that final touch.

*Whew*


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i think you may have misunderstood the situation,
all that useless bulls*** that comes with a new computer that is set to turn on at bootup,
it all takes a significant toll.

Even though it only takes a little bit of RAM or CPU or whatever, a little bit is still a little bit, especially since I actually prefer the Windows 2000 look. (I'm actually not sure if I can think of a good reason I do this... it's almost ritualistic.)

well, on a somewhat interesting note,
I technically have a middle wheel and middle mouse button on the touch pad.

multi touch and gesture support, its kinda neat.

tap the pad with 2 fingers simultaneously for the middle button.

slide vertically with 2 fingers for middle wheel.


among other things.

I kind of like the old-school look too.

And startup junk. Don't get me started on that mess. On my PCs, I've found disabling all the unnecessary stuff results in a small but noticeable improvement in performance.

Defragmenting after all is said and done helps as well.

And 1 oversight,

Were this thing is quite capable of handling gaming graphics (I.E. skyrim after the INI has been hacked in to hell),
and running them rather smoothly, ive completely forgot that graphics cards get VERY HOT.

good thing i thought to check the air temp coming from the cooling fan on this thing, (YIKES!)

and with the enclosed setup of the common laptop computer, seems i may need to look at external/forcefed cooling for this thing,

especially if i plan to run really taxing games on it.