I really don't understand how can anyone voluntarily use that abomination Crapindows 10! 3 hrs ago the neighbour 2 storeys below mine brought me his office laptop because of performance issues that I had to fix. I figured I should connect it to my network for it to be able to update properly and after that I could run a virus check. I've set my network to have a whitelist of MAC addresses as a security measure (bc without that measure local scroungers still manage to connect to my network, despite the complex password), so I ran cmd and used "ipconfig /all" in order to see the MAC address of the wi-fi device. What a surprise - the damn thing had 4 (four!!!) different MAC addresses! I tried all of them one by one - no connection with either one of them. I disabled (temporarily) the whitelist and the damn laptop did connect to my network but it remained in it for about 5 minutes. After that it disconnected from it on its own and then refused to connect again. Since the performance issue decided to happen again while I was waging a war with the MAC addresses, I had to reboot the laptop. And guess what happened after that - a 5th MAC adress appeared... I was about to give up dealing with this Microsoft's garbage when I remembered that a few days ago in a drawer I saw a very old 54-Mbit USB Wi-Fi adapter Tenda (the same brand as my router). I penetrated the laptop's back entrance (dirty pun intended) with that adapter and another "miracle" happened - a 6th MAC address appeared. This time it was understandable and logical - a new network device, a new MAC. Finally!!! the stupid laptop connected to my network with the whitelist enabled and remained connected for a little longer than half an hour which was a hopeful event, considering the previous attempts... I updated it and finally managed to proceed with fixing the performance issue which was no less entertaining. When he brought the laptop to me, it needed 6 minutes to just load the login screen, 2 more minutes to realize I had clicked on the username and show me the desktop and on top of that the CPU was idling at 75%. And that's a 4th gen i5 which isn't that bad CPU after all. It turned out that whoever installed Crapindows 10 on that laptop had set only 100 MB page file (with just 4GB RAM available) and on top of that had turned up all the fancy graphical effects. The mobile AMD graphics card had just 512 MB VRAM. These two things were the reason for the performance issues. So I set up a 6GB page file, turned off all the fancy graphical effect and suddenly the laptop took a little longer than 30 seconds to start and show a usable desktop. Which is an achievement for Windows in principle!
Because of the "great" Crapindows 10 and its habit to generate new MAC addresses and then disconnect from the wi-fi whenever it wants, I lost 2 hrs 30 min. Straighting things up with the performance took me 5 minutes tops! I can't even imagine why any sane person would wanna use that Microsoft's crap which doesn't know what it does and why it does it! This is not an operating system, this is a torture!
This is what I do for a living ((re)installing Windows, programs and user settings) but from now on I'll charge double anyone who wants me to deal with Crapindows 10...
Because of the "great" Crapindows 10 and its habit to generate new MAC addresses and then disconnect from the wi-fi whenever it wants, I lost 2 hrs 30 min. Straighting things up with the performance took me 5 minutes tops! I can't even imagine why any sane person would wanna use that Microsoft's crap which doesn't know what it does and why it does it! This is not an operating system, this is a torture!
This is what I do for a living ((re)installing Windows, programs and user settings) but from now on I'll charge double anyone who wants me to deal with Crapindows 10...
