[TenTec] (ham station computer choice)

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

There is no need to place yourself into that situation.
Simply buy a business computer from any of the good-name companies.
None of them put that software crap on their business computers.
You only find it on their consumer products which sell through Best Try.

73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)


-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8JHR
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 7:37 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] (ham station computer choice)

Hi Jim -- do a web crawl and search out sites which explain how to run the
box lean and mean and free from all those unnecessary applets and utilities
vendors install to give the impression you get a lot for your money.  Speech
recognition enthusiasts are some of the best at doing this because they know
each applet open and running consumes a time slice out of each processor
cycle, robbing the recognition engine of valuable calculation time.  Kill as
many as you can to give your main applications more processor time.

Also, there are helpful utilities and ways to reduce the number of 
"services" running under Windows.   Many programs load all or part of 
their main program on start up to give the illusion they start fast. 
You CAN alter the boot up routine to prevent them from starting like that.
One way is to look in the "tray" (the little bunch of icons in the lower
right had corner on a Windows box) and enter the preferences for each,
closing or exiting as many of them as possible - hoping to find you can keep
them from starting every time you reboot.  Remember, some of them are not
displayed on the Task Bar, but you may find them by activating the little
up-arrow button you find next to the clock (assuming it is showing).

A nice Saturday afternoon project ... searching out how to do all this in
some systematic way.

Good luck.
--------------------- K8JHR ------------------------------

On 5/7/2014 11:09 AM, Jim Allen wrote:
> I just bought a Dell and wonder how to test it for suitability, get 
> rid of all the add on nonsense.  I'd be glad just to be up to speed on 
> W7, actually, having put off moving from XP for a long time while you 
> computer geniuses handled the beta testing.
>
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