Subj : Re: Learned something new To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Sun Aug 04 2024 23:46:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > KM> Easiest is just to add it to the Favorites menu, which you can > KM> organize into folders or however you like. > KM> Mine is under > KM> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Favorites > > Ed should have a lot of options to play with! Yeah, there are several ways, no need to leave Explorer open all the time. More than likely that's his problem. > Sort of along the line of file organization, I created a directory > called "File Cabinet" and its purpose is pretty much that: a place to > store other directories. Here too much was getting stored under my user > directory (Linux: /home/barry; Windows I think plain ol' C:\) so moved > things around, created a few shortcuts, and cleaned things up. I have so many storage places... my \Info hierarchy is best not discussed. > KM> I also keep a lot of want-it-now stuff in QuickLaunch, which one > KM> can organize manually here (including folders if desired): > > Here "File Cabinet" is listed as a regular directory and I also created > some shortcuts to go directly to a few directories inside the File > Cabinet directly. I do that with Save a Copy (elsewhere) in LibreOffice, since it's too dumb to remember the somewhere else. Shortcut to wherever I put the copy. > KM> or wherever your user-data is found; I'm Administrator. > > Hm: I'd figure 'CMMO': Chief Mucky Muck Officer! LOL. Should rename myself. > KM> I so thoroughly miss QuickLaunch in Win10/11 that I'm going to > KM> have to make a new toolbar just for the purpose (or jury-rig it > KM> through the Desktop toolbar). > > Either they took it away because too few people used it or they couldn't Nope. Were so many screams of dismay with Win7 removing it that they had to allow that there was a registry tweak to make it work again. > figure out how to make it work in the new version. :) Bingo. That, and the ability to colorize Windows however you like -- Aero crippled it and whatever they call the Win8-and-later screen manager can't do it at all. They seem to have copied what KDE did about the same time. KDE used to be totally customizable too. Now you have to muck about with a cranky theme editor. > > EV> I keep Firefox open for when I open a .html file that is saved in > > EV> one of my Directories, etc. > > I'm wondering if that's causing more problems than worth. (Rhetorical.) > KM> Firefox does leak memory, sometimes significantly. But that just > KM> makes things slow, it doesn't prevent opening another program. > > I didn't phrase that wholly: more wondering if using Firefox, which is a > relatively 'huge' programme and can do a lot, was taking up unnecessary > memory in Ed's system with the not-called-upon functions. Sort of IOW > would it be better to have a dedicated HTML utility taking up a small > memory footprint, (I'm definitely in my Black Box territory.) No, that's the sort of thing that gets swapped out to the, uh, swapfile. Just slows things down for the disk read and write, doesn't clog things up entirely. > KM> Browsers are great whopping hogs on disk, take forever to load (I > KM> expect 30 seconds or so on Ed's system), and having an SSD or > KM> NVMe does more for performance than anything else. I use a > KM> sacrificial NVMe for swap and cache, because it's SOOOOOO much > KM> faster. > > Looks like when I build my new system I need to consider a few extra > pieces of hardware! Currently have a SSD for the Operating System and I Yeah, I have a PCIe-4x card (actually two of them) in Silver that hosts an NVMe. With PCIe-4x slot you get full NVMe speed. With a 1x slot you only get SSD speed or less. Those 4x slots are useless for vidcards and overkill for NICs, so might as well use them up. > presume programmes. Know the Swap is also on it. The HDD is for data. > Ues, slower but not as likely to suddenly fail as solid state stuff. > The Virtual Machine items is mostly on a NVMe. 'Mostly' because it > appears some residual on the hard drive from the original installation. Yeah, if you build the VM from an existing image on another drive, it does that. Really annoying, and stupid. The only fix, AFAIK, is to export the VM as an OVA and re-import it under a new name so it's all in one place again. Or make sure the source file is in the final destination directory, so it doesn't get lost. > Also using a ramdisk for temporary files: both 'note' type of documents > where don't need to be kept 'forever' on the hard drive and 'scratchpad' > items. I did that for a long time, had a lot of permanent quick-access junk and the browser cache there. Haven't got around to doing it on Silver, tho I should for the browser cache. At least SeaMonkey lets me set the location! > KM> I've done that. Textfile listing everything, until everything got > KM> too big to list in a textfile. > > TextFile.txt, continued to TextFile_2.txt, continued to TextFile_3.txt. > ..Then at TextFile_10 realize you should have called it TextFile_01! ....8GB of textfile.txt later... > > EV> Wierd?, Yes!, but works for me, and helps a lot. > > I'm a big fan of "if it works for you, great!". Over the years I've > > learned and incorporated a lot of 'alternative'ways of doing things. > > ..Well, might not be a great idea to 'alternately' drive on the left in > > the U.S., you knew what I meant! > KM> LOL. One could try it. It's a good way to prevent falling asleep > KM> on long night drives.... > Where's that cartoon about the wife calling the husband to warn about > the wrong-way driver and he responds "there's hundreds of them!"!! LOL, but I've seen that in L.A. .... one wrongway came flying off the ramp and landed below the overpass right in front of me. Landed skewered on a bollard. And I was like WTF, but couldn't stop to see (pretty sure it was no one you'd want to help). > KM> Yeah, there are other ways to achieve the same instant-access and > KM> NOT LOST without leaving everything open all the time. > > I'll admit to doing it the "Microsoft Way": software is too slow so the > hardware gets faster, with faster hardware the software can function > faster so let's have it do more, which slows down because the hardware > can't keep up, so faster hardware...... GRRRR! > Like I said up there somewhere I use a SSD for the OS. On some rather > old-and-slow machines I've replaced the hard drive with a solid state > one -- took a two- and three minute boot down to around 15-20 seconds. Yeah, I do that too. Tho I have a board for Paladin that isn't any faster than Silver or the other "new" (10 year old) PCs, but it has a native bootable NVMe slot, so will use that. Paladin's current innards are 20 years old. Was shocked that a 1TB NVMe has ONE memory chip the size of a fingernail. Wherever does it keep all the data?? > > > .. Do 8 Hobbits = 1 Hobbyte? > KM> And rabbits, rabbytes?? > > KM> This is a very good question. > > KM> First, catch Hobbit. > > Course instruction: Wyle E. Coyote. Teacher Assistant: Roadrunner. Final Exam: *SPLAT* þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .