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This is ridiculous!
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Stupid Trillian opens a new instance each time you right click and "open in new browser".
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Stupid Trillian opens a new instance each time you right click and "open in new browser".
WTF are you smoking? 36 processes is nothing. I have Opera, WS-FTP and Foobar open, and I'm at 53 processes :roll:
Disorganized?
Negatory. I know exactly where everything that I'm using regularly is; how many alt-tabs it takes to get to it.
But I also use Taskbar Commander.
Why should I close something if I'm going to need it again in an hour, a day, a week, or even a month?
We have these uber computers with eleventy billion megabytes of memory, and... you have one IE window open? That's stupid, IMO.
It's called multitasking.
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MrDudeMan
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easy there...no need to be that abrasive when you are simply expression your own opinion. :roll:
and its still a lot of processes. what on earth do you have open? i do a lot of stuff on my computer, but no human can actively use more than 9-10 programs constantly. why would you need to run 2 instances of mspaint for more than a few seconds? edit: im talking about at home, not at work. i dont see why you need to have 5 instances of something open when you are just surfing the web and messing around. if you can provide a good enough example i will change my opinion.
i have nothing running in the background either. unless you guys are worried about spyware/viruses, then i dont see the point in running that either. i have 14 processes running when i have nothing open.
of course, i may use 40-50 if i absolutely needed to, but i just dont see what anyone would be doing at home on a saturday that needed 50 processes.
MrDudeMan
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Originally posted by: Eli
Disorganized?
Negatory. I know exactly where everything that I'm using regularly is; how many alt-tabs it takes to get to it.
But I also use Taskbar Commander.
Why should I close something if I'm going to need it again in an hour, a day, a week, or even a month?
We have these uber computers with eleventy billion megabytes of memory, and... you have one IE window open? That's stupid, IMO.
It's called multitasking.
gosh, i never knew! :roll: and who said i have 1 IE window open?
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It occurs when a "page" of memory was not found in physical memory, and the VM system had to hit the hard disk to retrieve it.
I didn't mean that line to be directed towards you, I was just expressing my opinion.Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
Originally posted by: Eli
Disorganized?
Negatory. I know exactly where everything that I'm using regularly is; how many alt-tabs it takes to get to it.
But I also use Taskbar Commander.
Why should I close something if I'm going to need it again in an hour, a day, a week, or even a month?
We have these uber computers with eleventy billion megabytes of memory, and... you have one IE window open? That's stupid, IMO.
It's called multitasking.
gosh, i never knew! :roll: and who said i have 1 IE window open?
If my computer slows down, THEN I will close things. I would feel silly if my computer was sitting here and I had 2 or 3 things open, lol. That's just not how I work....
I will go through and close things every once in a while, like all those stupid IE instances that are open. Usually because sh!t will stop working when things get nasty like that. A lot of times the open windows will just be a picture, or a link that I'm not really interested in. In that case, I'll close it. But if it interests me, contains links that I want to come back to, etc.. I'll just leave it open.. for as long as it needs to be.
You're probably also one of the people that shut their computer off when they're not using it? Shrug. Different strokes for different folks. I hate rebooting. Infact, I haven't rebooted in 24 days, 7 hours and 7 minutes.. which isn't really all that impressive, but this is a newly built system = lots of reboots.
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No need to cast sweeping generalisations either. "...way too much stuff running..." - who defines "too much"?
Regular Windows components + ATI applets, Diskeeper Service, Logitech service, Explorer, Foobar, Google Desktop (4 items), McAfee (9 items), MSN Messenger, Norton Ghost Server, Opera, Outlook, Ultramon (2 items), VMWare Network items (2), ActiveSync, Word (goes with Outlook), WS-FTP, YzDock, some Bluetooth stuff.
My reasoning for having "that much stuff open" when "just .... messing around" is; why not? Why remove stuff from MSConfig that you use, why remove "unecessary" services and programs, why not have all the stuff you use open at once?
Good grief, I often run out of memory when running VMWare and some other stuff.
Sorry, but if you don't see a need to run active antivirus protection in this day and age then you should have "n00b" tattoo'd on your forehead.
I just don't see why anybody would want to have the smallest number of processes running at any given time, just because they don't want to use up all their precious RAM, or some other absurd reason.
A computer is a tool; use it, don't spend all your time making it different to use.
Yup; the number of times the memory system has failed to find a specific page of memory in physical RAM and has had to retrieve it from a storage medium
Back in the DOS/Win9x days, that would have caused the program to crash, no?Originally posted by: Dopefiend
Yup; the number of times the memory system has failed to find a specific page of memory in physical RAM and has had to retrieve it from a storage medium
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Originally posted by: Eli
Back in the DOS/Win9x days, that would have caused the program to crash, no?Originally posted by: Dopefiend
Yup; the number of times the memory system has failed to find a specific page of memory in physical RAM and has had to retrieve it from a storage medium
I don't think so. Win9x had a swap file.
MrDudeMan
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that is just plain retarded. i havent had anti-virus software running for 2 years and ive never had a single problem. maybe you should learn how to use the internet and acquire better email skills. the rest of your post was fine, but this particular part is just plain ignorant.
Originally posted by: radioouman
Originally posted by: Eli
Back in the DOS/Win9x days, that would have caused the program to crash, no?Originally posted by: Dopefiend
Yup; the number of times the memory system has failed to find a specific page of memory in physical RAM and has had to retrieve it from a storage medium
I don't think so. Win9x had a swap file.
This man speaks the truth
Plus, DOS didn't have a Virtual memory system - you ran out of RAM, you're out, there's no more
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