The Official Computer Geeks Thread

**Janszoon** · 10-13-2011, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zer0

You know you're a geek when you hear "tablets worth €440,000 seized by police" on the news and think that's a lot of ipads.

Freebase Dali · 10-13-2011, 07:07 PM

Tech geek tip of the day:

DEFRAGGLER.
It's awesome. You can defrag entire drives, folders and even single files. So, defragging your porn folder is now possible without having to do the whole drive.

You can also defrag free space, and another neat feature is you can have the defragger move large files that typically don't get used often, to the end of the drive (the slower part) and specify minimum file sizes and file types.

noise · 10-13-2011, 07:32 PM

A few weeks ago, I found a smashed-up laptop in a dumpster at work. I pulled out my screwdriver (yes, I keep one with me) and removed the hard drive. A 320GB WD Scorpion

I finally got around to ordering a case for it off of NewEgg. It arrived today. I fired it up, and naturally, the first thing I did was search it for porn. Found about 100GB of videos, nothing remarkable. But there were some nice explicit shots of some girl named Ashley hidden away in the dude's music folder, under Disc 2 of some NAS album

Anyway I saved the porn, formatted the drive, and now I'm now in the process of copying my 200GB comic collection onto it to free up some room on my internals for downloading more crap.

It's pretty cool.

Zer0 · 10-13-2011, 07:44 PM

Defragging is indeed quite useful. I defragged the C drive on my dad's computer a few weeks ago because it hadn't been defragged in about two years. It's an old Dell with 512MB RAM and XP and was also one of the slowest computers I've ever used. It basically took hours but it seemed to run a bit quicker and smoother as a result. Also setting the Windows graphic settings to the minimum helped improved the performance even more. I defrag my laptop HD every couple of months and even my ipod the odd time just to keep them working as quickly as possible. One time I somehow ended up with about 10GB extra free space on my laptop HD which was a bit strange.

Freebase Dali · 10-13-2011, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zer0

Defragging is indeed quite useful. I defragged the C drive on my dad's computer a few weeks ago because it hadn't been defragged in about two years. It's an old Dell with 512MB RAM and XP and was also one of the slowest computers I've ever used. It basically took hours but it seemed to run a bit quicker and smoother as a result. Also setting the Windows graphic settings to the minimum helped improved the performance even more. I defrag my laptop HD every couple of months and even my ipod the odd time just to keep them working as quickly as possible. One time I somehow ended up with about 10GB extra free space on my laptop HD which was a bit strange.

Yerp.
Another useful tip is to open up services.msc from the run console and disable (or set to manual) any services that are not needed. It's remarkable how many there actually are, running in the background and eating up ram, that don't need to be.

When doing this, it's helpful to google for a guide to the operating system's services and what they do, and whether or not they're critical.

Startup programs is another one that usually needs a good pruning after a system has been at the hands of an average user for any length of time.

10-13-2011, 07:32 PM	#23 (permalink)
noise thirsty ears Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Boulder Posts: 742	A few weeks ago, I found a smashed-up laptop in a dumpster at work. I pulled out my screwdriver (yes, I keep one with me) and removed the hard drive. A 320GB WD Scorpion I finally got around to ordering a case for it off of NewEgg. It arrived today. I fired it up, and naturally, the first thing I did was search it for porn. Found about 100GB of videos, nothing remarkable. But there were some nice explicit shots of some girl named Ashley hidden away in the dude's music folder, under Disc 2 of some NAS album Anyway I saved the porn, formatted the drive, and now I'm now in the process of copying my 200GB comic collection onto it to free up some room on my internals for downloading more crap. It's pretty cool. __________________ my flac collection

10-13-2011, 07:44 PM	#24 (permalink)
Zer0 ∞ Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,792	Defragging is indeed quite useful. I defragged the C drive on my dad's computer a few weeks ago because it hadn't been defragged in about two years. It's an old Dell with 512MB RAM and XP and was also one of the slowest computers I've ever used. It basically took hours but it seemed to run a bit quicker and smoother as a result. Also setting the Windows graphic settings to the minimum helped improved the performance even more. I defrag my laptop HD every couple of months and even my ipod the odd time just to keep them working as quickly as possible. One time I somehow ended up with about 10GB extra free space on my laptop HD which was a bit strange. __________________ Last FM \| RYM \| The Final Sound

10-13-2011, 07:07 PM	#22 (permalink)
Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	Tech geek tip of the day: DEFRAGGLER. It's awesome. You can defrag entire drives, folders and even single files. So, defragging your porn folder is now possible without having to do the whole drive. You can also defrag free space, and another neat feature is you can have the defragger move large files that typically don't get used often, to the end of the drive (the slower part) and specify minimum file sizes and file types.