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Offline deSelys

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« Reply #90 on: September 30, 2004, 02:56:05 PM »
Wow Moot the 2nd one is niiiiiice! May I steal it?


Mine:

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« Reply #91 on: September 30, 2004, 03:00:19 PM »
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here is my desktop desktop, the laptop is the same with different icon's.




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« Reply #92 on: September 30, 2004, 03:08:38 PM »
Beetle, you may think all of that stuff is idle, but you are wrong.  at the very least, it is taking up RAM, at the worst(and most common), it is eating up cycles through interrupts.

Simple to check: run a benchmark, turn all that crap off and re-run the benchmark.

I have zero running at startup, and only the volume icon in my taskbar.

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« Reply #93 on: September 30, 2004, 03:25:49 PM »
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Beetle, you may think all of that stuff is idle, but you are wrong.  at the very least, it is taking up RAM, at the worst(and most common), it is eating up cycles through interrupts.

Simple to check: run a benchmark, turn all that crap off and re-run the benchmark.

I have zero running at startup, and only the volume icon in my taskbar.



Is this same computer connected to the net? If so then where do you have the virus checker, firewall running?



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« Reply #94 on: September 30, 2004, 03:26:22 PM »
Here's Mine...





It's WinXP ofcourse but I've got an Apple theme on there at the moment, It suits me =)
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« Reply #95 on: September 30, 2004, 03:42:55 PM »
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Here's Mine...





It's WinXP ofcourse but I've got an Apple theme on there at the moment, It suits me =)


ROFL  :rofl

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« Reply #96 on: September 30, 2004, 03:46:47 PM »
External router, spam and virus software is on the service provider system.

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« Reply #98 on: September 30, 2004, 03:59:56 PM »
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External router, spam and virus software is on the service provider system.



And you don't run anything else yourself? My ISP does the same but I wouldn't trust it to block everything. So also run Firewall, online virus checker and spyware blocker.



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« Reply #99 on: September 30, 2004, 04:44:18 PM »


Nothing like having three displays to give you a little elbow room on your desktop :)

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« Reply #100 on: September 30, 2004, 04:46:13 PM »
Never had a virus or spyprog in 10 years. (X fingers)

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« Reply #101 on: September 30, 2004, 04:55:59 PM »
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Nothing like having three displays to give you a little elbow room on your desktop :)


do you really find this useful? Seems that you can look at one of them at the time anyway, and three screens (even LCDs) will take a lot of space on your desktop, so  there'll be no place for your toys :)

Also, doesn't this setup force you to costantly turn your head left and right?

Just curious.

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« Reply #102 on: September 30, 2004, 05:25:18 PM »
Looks like mine is one of the more boring desktops.
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« Reply #103 on: September 30, 2004, 05:33:32 PM »
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Looks like mine is one of the more boring desktops.


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Hey, at least it won't ever give you a headache.

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« Reply #104 on: September 30, 2004, 05:54:52 PM »
Mine would win as the absolute most boring, if I could only post a pic.  

The background is grey. I find grey is easiest on my eyes in dim/dark rooms.  No wallpaper, no tiles, just flat dark grey.

There's no icons on the taskbar at the bottom except the start button and the clock.   Nothing in systray at all.  Taskbar is grey too, none of that fancy blue color and it just sits there and doesn't auto-hide or play games like that.

4 ICONS on the main desktop--My Computer, Network Places, Internet Explorer and Recycle Bin.   They're on the left where they default to (don't want anything flashy like...moved icons).



My computer itself is probably the most interesting though.  I took all of it out of the case for repair work on the fans and never put it back together, so it's just a mess of cables and boards and parts and drives sitting on various levels of my desk and on the floor.  I ran over the power supply (it's taken apart too) with my chair once and it sparked a lot and shut down, but it still works ok.   I found that in its current state it runs far cooler than when it is together.   I'll probably get it back into one piece this winter since cooling won't be such an issue and it's getting kinda dusty.



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