I'm using Windows 10 and to me it feels just like using Windows 7.

Nice to see you, KC! That's encouraging since I'm happily using 7 at the moment.

Thanks all for the thoughts.

Puter's going in to the shop where it was built for routine maintenance in a week or so. I'll talk to them and maybe upgrade then while it is still free. I'm also going to talk to them about more memory just in case I want to install ESO and still have plenty of room.

WOO HOO !!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!!!!

You likely know this, but just in case... Sounds like you are thinking to play ESO at some point and want to make sure your computer has enough storage space to house the installed game? If so, yous should be checking for available free space on your hard drive(s), SSD(s) and/or so on. Computer memory (ram) is a different animal entirely. When a program is launched it loads from wherever its stored (HD/SSD/etc.) into ram. It runs in ram, occasionally accessing the storage device to load new data and/or make hard saves.

This is not to say that you won't benefit from more ram. You might or might not, depending on how much you have already and the programs you want to run. But...it sounds like what you are concerned about is adequate storage.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jul 16 2016, 10:00 PM

ESO probably takes some whopping memory too, though. Here is the pre-release Zenimax page on it:


http://elderscrollsonline.info/system-requirements





Here is the requirements I found on the "can you run it?" site:


Minimum requirements:

CPU: Dual Core 2.0 GHz or equivalent processor
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 2 GB
OS: Windows XP 32-bit
Video Card: DirectX 9.0 compliant video card with 512MB of RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 8800 / ATI Radeon 2600 or better)
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 60 GB



Recommended Requirements:


CPU: Quad Core 2.3GHz or equivalent processor
CPU Speed: Info
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Windows 7 64-bit or Windows 8 64-bit
Video Card: DirectX 11 compliant video card with 2GB of RAM (NVIDIA GeForce 560 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 6950 or better)
Sound Card: Yes
Free Disk Space: 60 GB

Thanks, Decrepit. You are right, of course, and wise to offer the advice given my limited tech smarts. Happily, I was indeed talking about adding more storage memory to the hard drives rather than ram. I looked at how much available room I had on my main drive and the free space is barely enough to install ESO. I'd like to have quite a bit more than the minimum required so I don't have to worry about adding stuff. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks also, mALX. You were adding your helpful info as I was posting.

This post has been edited by Acadian: Jul 16 2016, 09:43 PM

Acadian is preparing Puter to play ESO??


What has the world come to!??

Hey, if you can play Fallout, why can't I play ESO? Still in the thinkin' about it process though.

I still want you back to Oblivion


But of course I´m jesting, I hope you´ll have fun with it I guess you´re planning to port Buffy and Superian over if plans get real?

*mALX faints dead away on hearing Mirocu played Fallout*




"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! What's this world coming to?"

Well I was going to ask "should I upgrade to Windows 10?" but I see there's already discussion about it. I'm still not sure if I should or not. The IT guy we have at my job (he fixes all our computers if we need him) is vehemently against 10. I'm still torn. I particularly get worried when they say "you MUST upgrade or else...."

Anyways, my other question: is there a way to "optimize" Internet Explorer? My main home computer used to work flawlessly at entering various websites, even slow-loading sites like Photobucket used to get loaded up within 15-20 seconds or so. It's always been fast, until a week ago. All the sudden, most websites are now really slow-loading (except old technology sites like here at Chorrol). This includes Bethesda's forums, which have always loaded up quickly. Now Beths' forums take ages to load with Internet Explorer, if they load up at all.

I've gotten around this by finally installing Firefox at home. Firefox works flawlessly. But I actually prefer IE over the Fox since IE is simpler to use; I don't need the Fox's additional options. My comp seems to want me to upgrade IE, but if I try to upgrade Internet Exploder it'll ask me to also upgrade to Windows 10. So if anybody knows a way to make IE work faster again, I'd appreciate that.

And I should add that I already into IE"s Tools menu and did a few things. I can't remember what they were though, 'cause I'm on my work computer now. Dang. I shoulda asked this question at home so I can say more exactly what I tried.

This post has been edited by Renee: Jul 19 2016, 05:42 PM

This sounds suspiciously like a campaign slogan. You aren't thinking to run for public office are you?


I've no advice to offer on IE. I've never liked it. Haven't used it in a great many years, except to access the official Minecraft forums for a brief period when, for whatever reason, Firefox all of a sudden wouldn't let me edit my Autocracy of Decrepia screenshot thread. Normally when things begin to slow down I suspect installation of resource hogging background programs, but that should affect more than just IE I would think. What does Task Manager tell you about CPU and memory usage?

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jul 19 2016, 06:33 PM

There we go, now we're on to something.

Task Manager on. Only thing I noticed is if I try to open Beth's forums, and the page actually loads, I am noticing Disk 0 (C,D) maxes out at 100%, or close to it. But then usage will fall dramatically to near-nothing. Meanwhile, the Beth page is loaded up, but I won't be able to interact with it at all. There will just be a spinning circle on the tab next to Bethesda Forums. But I won't be able to click on my mail, won't be able to click on any links, won't even be able to go backwards a page.

If the page doesn't load, now Disk 0 (C,D) will be showing no activity. 0%, or close to 0%. So yeah, I'm thinking it's something in the C hard drive specifically. Maybe Norton is messing things up.

I fixed it.

All I had to do was right-click on my C hard-drive and then cast a spell called "Disk Cleanup". Clicked on a bunch of options: Temporary Internet Files, Debug Dump Files, Offline Webpages... I don't know what the hell I just did, but it worked. I'll have to save Disk Cleanup into my spell book.

Glad it turned out to be nothing more than an overstuffed drive. That's normally about the simplest computer problem to fix there is.

Doing that should be regular maintenance at least monthly. I do mine weekly:


* Clear out any internet cookies; history; etc.

* Delete any .tmp files.

* Clean all of the above you just said

* Defrag


* And search for bad sectors; repair them I do on my standard hard drive about once per month; I don't do it on my SSD drive.

Excellent advice, mALX, I should do this monthly too. I feel so stupid too, because we (well, not me, but this guy at work) regularly defrag and do dick cleanups on our work computers; it never even occurred to me to do this at home. Everything has worked so flawless up til a week ago, I guess.

And thanks to Decrepit, for nudging me in the right direction. If I hadn't seen the weird activity going on with the Task Manager I'd probably be at Best Buy by now, standing in line saying "help me, help me!"

BOLD: Wow, what kind of place do you work at? BWAAAHAAA !!!!!!!

I highly recommended everyone moves to Linux instead of Windows or Mac. Currently using Fedora 24 with XFCE4 on a Virtual Machine and it's brilliant.

Also does anyone know how to root an android and change the OS?

Can't say for certain, but you'll probably be able to find out here