Computer Geeks of DiS
Hey guys, anyone out there use Windows 8? I'm having major issues with memory leaks, and a Google search shows it's really common, but I can't find a solution. My computer has slowed right down, and the task manager is showing conflicting stats. Here's a pic
http://i.imgur.com/AYpaOSX.png
Any help would be much appreciated. I've already deleted system32 and that doesn't seem to help.
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yo're gonna need to turn it off
and then back on.
I've done that a whole bunch of times, nothing changes :/
It just pipes back up. sux.
If anyone says anything about putting it in a bowl of rice I'll shank you
put it in a bowl of couscous
My colleague uses it and has no problems but that's for work.
Are you playing Battlefield 3? This seems to come up on Google alongside this issue.
I found this page:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/840-73-windows-extremely-high-memory-usage
What processor/chipset are you using? It sounds like (from there) that it's something to do with an AMD driver that is screwed up for Win 8 and people have resolved it by going back to an earlier driver.
I'm not, like them, the ram usage shoots up to 98%
despite me only having a browser and iTunes open. I have a Nvidia graphics card and an Intel i5 processor, I did update the graphics card recently so that might be it, I'll try going back to an earlier driver, cheers
As stated below
If you check the Task Manager you should be able to view the amount of memory each application is using. Might be worth checking.
Which browser, for example? I'm sure it's not unknown for browsers to have this 'feature'.
Solution option:
don't buy a computer with an absolute piss-take of an OS.
</sickburn>
Solution too: don't be an absolute wang, TheWza.
...
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4425091
:D
Fuck you, DOTS! :D
My argument was far more complex and also important!
bit racist
What would you recommend then
henry hoover / scottish independence
any windows from xp to 7.
+ what japes said.
Windows 7 is the same as Windows 8, except Win8 is better designed
and doesn't have a start menu.
Doesn't have a Start button - shiny Metro mode is the Start Menu
But even then, it's so similar as makes no odds.
Want the menu? Press the Win Key or click in the lower left corner, same as before.
Want control panel/admin options? Same place on the screen, right-click.
Want Libraries? Right-click the File Explorer icon, which is right next to it.
Really don't see what people are complaining about. If anything, it's kind of a let-down after the hype - 'revolutionary' etc. All they did was hide the graphic for the Start button!
You should probably reply to jonny_rat down there VVVV
but don't blame me kills you.
but why go scrolling through a load of shitty purple panels
when you used to have such a nice simple organised list you could read
it was so much more efficient
I don't know how to use Windows 8
Therefore it is bad and not doing what it is supposed to do.
What do you mean issues with memory leaks?
In the operating system itself, or a specific application? They're more likely to be caused by a specific application, in which case, upgrading to Windows 8 won't make a difference, but an O/S reinstall of any kind will always help clean the crap up.
I think it's something going on in the background
because it doesn't show up at all in the processes tab
Have you had a look in the processes tab?
selected show processes from all users and sorted by memory usage? Can you see what process is using the greatest amount of memory?
Also is your OS patched or otherwise fully up to date? You could also try running Windows memory diagnostic tool in administrative tools to see if that comes up with anything, or memtest if that fails to pick up anything.
Unfotunately not
doesn't come up at all, so it doesn't even add up.
It's completely up to date, it sounds like a recent Nvidia update could be the problem though. I tried running the memory diagnostic but it told me "Not enough memory to conduct diagnostic" :'')
Memory leaks
Have you tried polyfill
ithankyou
i hate using windows 8 so so much
if they wanted that panels shit for tablet devices then they should have developed parallel OSs for desktop and tablet instead of fucking up something the whole world understands
Don't you just hit windows key and start typing to initiate the auto-search, though?
because why couldn't they just leave something that worked alone
^typed from Commodore 64
Yes you're right. We should all just be listening to records in Mono and playing movies off VHS.
It still works. It just works differently.
That said, Win 8 should probably only be sold on devices with touch screens simply because it's an O/S that's looking forward.
I agree with your last point.
And that's the point. For a WIMP PC setup, Win8 is unfit for purpose and a retrograde step compared to the XP-Vista-7 lineage.
Also, I've just noticed that the imgur link in the OP is giving out subliminal OSX vibes. :-)
I've used Metro without a touch screen and it's fine.
I mean once you get Win 7 everyone just types what they want in the search box and pins all the popular apps on the task bar. Who the hell goes hunting through the menus any more? So in that sense the move to metro is entirely of no real consequence.
Yes, you have to get used to it being slightly different but that was true of the move up from Win98SE to XP and XP to Vista/7. If you don't think it was then you've just forgotten.
theo don't make me come up there
the differences are more than the start bar: the godawful placing of settings that are split between the right-hand swipe bar and traditional dialogs (some of which are still hangovers from windows bloody 2000), the splitting of software installations between the integrated windows store and traditional installers, the fact that although '99%' of software from W7 is supposed to work it rarely ever does, the weird handling of seeing/closing running programs. It isn't just 'different' for a desk/laptop: it's worse.
look what you've done to me
you awful man
:D
The splitting of settings is odd tbf
I never had any problems with legacy programs, though.
Start menu/shiny Metro mode is different, and behaves like it wants to be its own OS, but MS won't let it. Hence installations are different and things don't close, you just go 'home'.
One thing that does get on my tits is the use of 'apps' to describe every program. 'App' is a good word to describe the simple, lite-version things in Metro mode, that suspend rather than close. But stuff like Word, Excel and bloody Photoshop arent 'apps' - they're programs! It's a distinction worth keeping - apps for Metro mode, programs for Windows.
i haven't forgotten anything.
i use xp daily in the default fisher price mode /and/ in the looks-and-acts-like-98 classic mode. also use vista daily - it's glossy, but it follows the same paradigm.
menus are good because they're browsable and hierarchical. with a search box you need to know what it is you're searching for. it's why the file and folder tree structure hasn't been superseded by tagging.
i use a touchscreen android phone all day for a whole bunch of stuff, and it's better than a mouse and PC at a whole load of stuff, so this isn't me being closed to new things.
Win8 & metro, on a desktop, with a mouse and keyboard, is daft. It reminds me of the Active Desktop thing from the days of Win98 and IE4, with crappy widgets all over the shop (it wasn't a complete arse though - I was quite partial to the setting that let you one-click on files and folders in windows explorer, etc as if you were browsing the internet).
yes
<3 menus
Ubuntu has this type of search combined with a dock. Best set up if you ask me.
The panels-for-tablets business is literally just the Start menu
Like, as soon as you want to do something useful, you go into desktop mode - which is basically Windows 7.1.
The whole point of MS doing that was to put tablets and mobile OS makers in their place. They developed their own touch-friendly, mobile-styled system with live tiles and bells and whistles to compete with iOS and Android, but is it its own OS for tablets? No.
It's just the menu. It's the thing you look at before you start work. You can tit about with touch interfaces all you like, but when you're ready to do something productive, you get into Windows. Desktop mode is grown-up time, touch/tablet mode is for dicking about.
The whole 'two modes of Win 8' malarkey is actually a dig at Apple and Google. MS make their cash from Windows and Office - and you need a computer for Office (lol Win RT), so the shiny Start menu is just to attract people back to the 'real computer'. MS don't give a crap about tablets.
When I just want, to dick about, I'm mostly in the Start menu
But when it's time to work - even through a browser - it's desktop time. Office runs on the desktop, so does Chrome/Opera/Firefox, so does Photoshop, so does Winamp/iTunes/whatever. What do you spend your time using? When I'm working, I'm not looking at shiny Metro mode, any more than I was looking at the Start menu in Win 7.
desktop for everything all the time
the rest can piss off
hey there computer geek, you'll be connected in no time
os banter
it was absolutely just a thinly-veiled thread for exactly that...
Had my first taste of this today.
Went to set up a pensioner's new laptop for him. He has a notepad which is absolutely full of painstakingly written out instructions about how to do different things. Now every single one of them is fucking useless.
Tell me there's a simple option to permanently revert to 'classic mode' or similar?
http://www.classicshell.net/