Posts made by manxam

@Reid-Cooper : slang.org says "A person who has a little thug/nerd in them".. I'm not sure that's a bad thing. Isn't that descriptive of any GOOD IT person?

Manxam, Therd, BSc, MCSE, CCNA

I'm good with that..

@DustinB3403 : I assume you work for Microsoft support?

@DustinB3403

English is their second, third or forth fourth language. . .

Fixed!

@DustinB3403 : Possible workaround here...

@Donahue : Steam uses their own implementation of Wine called Proton and it's OSS.
Perhaps this can be compiled for other applications?
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Performance tweaks:

While I appreciate all the shitting on users, they deserve it, it’s totally derailed the purpose of this thread.

My fault. Sorry

Honestly though, Windows 10 runs pretty well out of the box with 8gb ram and an SSD.
I do, however, run a "Windows 10 cleanup" script after first boot to get rid of all the tiles for games and fluff applications and to limit telemetry but, otherwise, leave it well enough alone.

This is a neat little tool though if you want to get into the fine-grained stuff.

@pmoncho said in Windows 10 Performance tweaks:

Not the greatest answer but, its because my users know what "Start" means and when they are told to "Start and Log Off" they know exactly what I mean and where to move the mouse and which button to press.

Most of my users don't understand what "Right Click" mean. Yeah, its that bad! UGH

Its funny how users can manipulate their home pc's, create and send emails, scan, move, manipulate, attach files to emails and move all around. Then when they get to work, it all goes out the window and "I don't know how to do that!" Double UGH!

I understand. There are still so many users that completely "shut down" when faced with change. They don't even ATTEMPT to figure it out, they just mentally switch off. I understand that in my 75 year old mother, but don't understand how that's acceptable in a business setting in this day-and-age.

@RojoLoco said in Windows 10 Performance tweaks:

Agreed. Long gone are the days when "hee hee, I'm not good with computers" was a viable excuse. Most of the folks legitimately old enough to say that are retired now. Everybody else, get with the program.

Funny that you should say that. I recently on-boarded a new receptionist for a client who appears to be in her late-30s to early-40s. She just kept going on-and-on about how she "wasn't good with computers" and I still hear that a lot with people within my approximate age group (40ish).

I really fail to understand how these people get hired as these are the same individuals that cost the most in IT related charges. e.g. things that can easily be remedied by rebooting their computer, putting paper in a printer, or replacing the batteries in their wireless keyboard.

EDIT: <rant>I should state that I was there this past week and using this particular computer about 2 weeks after her on-boarding. I couldn't log into Windows and then noticed that the username was missing a character and the password kept appearing shorter than it should be. After finally logging in, I opened notepad and typed some words noting that 1/3 of the characters were dropped. The keyboard batteries were dying.
When I asked her about it she replied with "I don't use the keyboard that much and, when I do, it works just fine".
I watched her for a little while after I was finished and noticed that she typed at about 25 wpm giving the keyboard ample time to catch up. My typing at 90 wpm (which is roughly what a receptionist should type at I would think?) would give it fits. Don't even get me started about the "...don't use the keyboard" comment. What do you DO all day?!</rant>

@Dashrender : I literally JUST went through this with a client. All GPO's configured to monitor sleep & lock after 15 minutes which, after a fresh reboot, was stable.
Once the monitor went to sleep and was wakened, the systems would go to full sleep every 2 minutes.
I had to apply the same registry "hack" via GPO.

This was extremely annoying to the staff and made us look pretty incompetent as the control panel, powercfg.exe, etc all showed that the settings were being applied properly.

Ugh..

@pmoncho : I have to ask: why? I understand if you're using Windows 8.1 or the first couple versions of Windows 10 with the weird start menu but with current revisions the start menu differs very little from Windows 7. Turn off the groups on the right hand side and it's just a more modern skin to the old...

I should have noted that grep likely wouldn't like complicated RE patterns. Sed, however, supports the full gamut and is installed by default on pretty much every linux variant; not sure if pcregrep is.

It seems everyone likes the link I posted for the RE builder so I'll paste two others that I use:
https://regex101.com/
http://leaverou.github.io/regexplained/

Cheers!

@Pete-S : grep can use regular expressions to search using the pcre syntax.
If you could provide a sample of a piece of text that you want matched we may be able to help.
Otherwise, use regexr.com and it'll help you build the expression.

@romo : I'm not saying that this is the problem but I suspect it definitely doesn't help. I do have to ask WHY in the world someone would need delegate access to 43 mailboxes?

Have you tried recreating the profile yet?

I should also state that Outlook really doesn't like OST files of that size. Is that really JUST 1 year of email (as per your sync settings) or was that setting changed well past the 1 year mark?

@romo : What do you mean "43 user mailboxes"? Do you mean that she has delegate access for 43 other mailboxes??

Seeing as how it IS a 64 installation and is not using more than a couple of gigs of ram as stated in your title post, I'd suggest it's a corrupt profile.

Is this connected to IMAP or Exchange? If so, why not spin up a new profile and let the mail sync and see what happens?

The only issues that we ever run into with Outlook are fixed with a new profile which, thankfully, is a quick process -- unless you're using POP3 (kill me now!)

@scottalanmiller : Office defaults to 32 bit installation for compatibility with 3rd party plugins -- most of which are only written for the 32 bit version of office. This effectively means that Office can only address 2GB of the memory that's available.

As this user has such a large sent folder (though I've never experienced what you're describing), why not do a reinstall using the 64 bit version of Office? All settings and configuration is stored in the registry and will not be overridden.

@jaredbusch Nope... I think you're confusing this as you have an account and are logged in. @FATeknollogee pasted a page for new subscribers.

If you follow that link, then select the unlimited plan, you arrive at a new page
The new page allows one to select Local or Toll Free.
Choose Local and your state and proceed to the next page.
Choose your rate center and your page expands to show :
City Per Minute Rate Unlimited Rate
Athens $0.85/month + $0.009/minute $4.25/month + $0.00/minute View Available Numbers +

We're 4 pages in and it doesn't specify this inbound limit.

@scottalanmiller : Guess you have to choose the plan and select a number before being given "the fine print".
Sneaky bastards

Not that this was my question but want to ensure @FATeknollogee has all the details...

@jaredbusch : Their website makes no mention of the 3500 minutes though, you're right, your screenshot above does.

Does anyone know if this limit still exists? Your post is almost 2 years old.

@fateknollogee said in Creating a VoIP.ms SIP trunk:

https://voip.ms/en/rates/united-states

Can someone explain the $$ "details" of the Unlimited Plan?
It says $4.25 per mo. per DID, 2 channels, 6 sec increments

It's $4.25 for unlimited INBOUND calls but you still have to pay for all outbound calls @ 0.01 / minute.
You're also limited to 2 channels which, AFAIK, means you can only have 2 active calls at any time on this trunk.