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Windows 10 Is Adding an Ultimate Performance Mode For Pros (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-improved dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: When you're creating 3D models or otherwise running intensive tasks, you want to wring every ounce of performance out of your PC as possible. It's a good thing, then, that Microsoft has released a Windows 10 preview build in the Fast ring that includes a new Ultimate Performance mode if you're running Pro for Workstations. As the name implies, this is a step up for people for whom even the High Performance mode isn't enough -- it throws power management out the window to eliminate "micro-latencies" and boost raw speed. You can set it yourself, but PC makers will have the option of shipping systems with the feature turned on. Ultimate Performance isn't currently available for laptops or tablets, but Microsoft suggests that could change.

151 comments

  1. You can do this on older version too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Simply disable Windows Defender.

    1. Re:You can do this on older version too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good ol' Microsoft: Going backwards by saying they're going forwards (disabling SpeedStep/Cool'n'Quiet is now a feature)

    2. Re: You can do this on older version too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I use my 1 year old Dell Latitude Windows 10 laptop maybe once a month -- it takes hours to complete updates and it runs hot during that process -- is it possible that Microsoft is mining coin during the update process? Even downloading updates seems to be a big deal -- I have a similar laptop with Ubuntu 16 and also use that every month or so -- the update process looks more straight forward - download as quick as the network allows and get the update install completed within minutes

    3. Re:You can do this on older version too by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 1

      You know what I'm gonna do?
      I'm gonna get myself an Alienware gamer laptop
      Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps
      And all leather cow interior
      And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights (yeah)
      And I'm gonna drive in that baby in Ultimate Performance Mode
      Gettin' 1 mile per gallon
      Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonald's
      In the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers
      And when I'm done sucking down those greaseball burgers
      I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag
      And then I'm gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the side
      And there ain't a goddamn thing anybody can do about it

  2. Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you really want to "wring every ounce of performance out of your PC as possible", uninstall Windows and replace it with literally anything else.

    1. Re: Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      No

    2. Re: Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I need performance-based access to unimaginably important strategic platforms.

    3. Re: Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I need performance-based access to unimaginably important strategic platforms.

      Which is it, League of Legends or World of Warcraft?

    4. Re:Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Too bad the truth is marked as "Troll" Guess some people can't handle the truth.

    5. Re: Every ounce of performance by cdreimer · · Score: 0, Funny

      Please, bitches. Diablo III.

    6. Re: Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      CROFLOL!!! What a funny and insightful quip, Chris! Why did Slashdot management (complain to them) put you at -1? It's a shame to deprive the community at large of your humorous posts.

    7. Re: Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There you are spamming amazon and youtube affiliate links with yet another fake account, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!

      You can be sure I will be watching this fake account too. I know this is you because you told me you were working on your freepass 11 file server and you are so dumb that you can't even masquerade yourself properly.

      Now, I told you I was out of meds last week and you didn't even care to contact me you lazy fucker.

      How many times do I have to express the emergency of the situation??????

      The python click script you wrote for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work!!!!!!

      You fucking incompetent python script writer!!!

      When it works, I get 4000+ clicks a day on my pheromone revenue stream web site but only 5 or 6 without it!!!!

      Now, it seems like you dont care and that you have abandoned me you heartless fucking pig!

      Bonus:
      Here is a story that creimer told me when convincing me what a hard life he had:

      The tree was him and the tree knot was his butt hole!

      So, his uncle packed his fat ass with lard and with his cock! Not that it makes much of a difference but anyway, there it is!

      Signed:
      Ethell, The girl that used to love you and now hates you, burn in hell where you belong you sexist pig!

    8. Re: Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's funny because you could just as easily fake all the views, clicks, and subscriptions you're depending on slashdot for. It's such a small small number that youtube wouldn't ever notice. Besides your "subscriber link" trick is already dishonest enough to get you a strike if some minimum wage tubemonkey decides they need to pad their weekly numbers, people routinely get random strikes for insanely minuscule transgressions.

      Like why don't you just get all the passwords for your google sockpuppet accounts and game your numbers over a proxy? Or ask your friends to give you that initial bump?
      I get what you're doing, a small number of clicks and shit will ensure you're near the top of the list if you generate content on topics that aren't on the social radar yet.... but what you're doing here is building a huge embarrassing internet footprint. If you ever get any sort of popularity the trolls will come. Find what you've done here, and blog about your every tiny mistake. It'll be funny because you'll get eaten alive by other assholes trying to grift for their own clickbait pennies with articles about your child bride fixations and creepy female impersonations.

      This! exactly This! One thousand times!

      I am an on-line marketer myself and creimer has been burnt for a long time because of what I emphasized in your text above. The fucker is just too stupid to realize it.

      You would put the fucker in an extra large boiling tank with warm water and turn on the heat and the fucker would be too dumb to get out if he could when it gets too hot.

      creimer already pissed off many of us by bringing attention to friendly advertising plugs on Slashdot, especially when posted as AC and the Slashdot moderators have become intolerant to posts containing friendly links, thus hurting us all. AC posts on Slashdot used to generate more clicks before creimer decided to go crazy.

      Everybody hates creimer, especially other online marketers and although I would never do anything illegal, I hear other marketers might when it comes to creimer.

      Good luck dumb ass!

    9. Re: Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      fuck man creimer really has no friends

    10. Re: Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sorry but your copy & paste is shitty and you should feel bad :(

    11. Re: Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That'll show em. I bet FcLm is crying now.

    12. Re: Every ounce of performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Here are some posts from creimer's old accounts. I'll start with his love of child brides.

      If all my assets were liquidated, I would still have enough cash to buy a new car and head off to Mexico to find a chica to marry.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      You're aware that are some states in the U.S. that allow underage marriage as young as 14 years old?
      https://slashdot.org/comments....
      As for my comment, I've heard stories of engineers retiring at 50, moving to Mexico and marrying underage girls. Since I work with ex-military, the Philippines is a popular retirement spot for marrying underage girls as well. It's all about getting the most bang for your retirement dollars.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....
      That only works if you retire to Mexico, build a mansion (by local standards), marry an underage sweet thing and bequeath all your possessions to the village.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      You need to be more specific. I wrote 3,000+ comments this year.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      Nah... I just do it to piss off my trolls and make coffee money off of them.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....
      We have different priorities. You want to climb the corporate ladder. I want to own the corporate ladder.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      Your bitch licks your balls. Most people don't brag about practicing bestiality. Is there a reason why you married a dog and not a goat?
      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      My employers don't care about what my Slashdot trolls think. Now go off and lick your balls somewhere else.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....
      iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete. As a Sprint customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always offer me a new iPhone if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....
      Miracle workers are never afraid to ask for a second opinion. Supervisor gave me his opinion ? and a mess to clean up. Lesson learned from this incident: if something isn't quite broken, break it.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      So you can turn around call me a liar again? People have been playing that game with me for years.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....
      Based on what I've read about Uber, he need to tell the boys to clean up their locker room behavior, zip up their pants, and attend sensitivity training until everyone agrees that women are not sexual objects.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      Which doesn't violate the Slashdot TOS. If you got a problem with that, take it up with management.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....
      This year I've posted ~4,000 comments.
      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the

    13. Re: Every ounce of performance by Miamicanes · · Score: 1

      Not really. For typical desktop use running apps that don't necessarily TRY to be optimized for multithreading, Windows generally "tries harder" to put multiple cores to good use ANYWAY.

      The traditional Linux attitude has been, "if you want to take advantage of multiple cores, write your software properly." Windows just assumes (correctly) that most apps DON'T try, and does its best to at least multithread the *rest* of the system (including libraries). It doesn't always succeed, but it tends to get accidentally-good results more often than Linux does.

      Where Windows USED to fuck up badly was memory usage. Simply put, older versions were WAY too eager to swap out to virtual RAM, even if you had 16+ gigabytes. As a practical matter, without registry-tweaking in semi-undocumented ways, it was almost IMPOSSIBLE to get Windows to use more than a gig of RAM for any one app, or 4 gigs system-wide, without having Windows start aggressively paging out virtual memory, unless you disabled paging altogether.

      I believe it happened because the logic for virtual-memory handling was intertwined with the logic for implementing PAE. Prior to ~Win8, there were two operating modes: one for low-memory systems whose history went all the way back to Windows95 (and allowed it to limp with a mere 4mb of ram), and one for high-memory systems where PAE was assumed to be used (even though Microsoft ultimately disabled PAE in most systems).

      When 64-bit Windows arrived, Microsoft started with the "high-memory" code, ripped out the PAE-implementation logic, but ran out of time/developers and left the PAE-imposed LIMITS in place. It wasn't until ~2014 that Microsoft finally got around to refactoring it to remove those limits. And even now, many of those limits still exist by default unless you disable them via registry keys because some popular older apps crash if they're disabled.

      Don't believe me? Do a virgin-install of 64-bit Windows 10 on a new PC with 32gb of RAM, then TRY to get Windows to physically use more than 4 gigs of it without swapping (and without registry-hacking or disabling virtual memory altogether). What Windows NOW does by default is to swap pages to UPPER ram, with slightly better logic to decide when it needs to swap those "paged pages" to the ssd/hard drive. I think it also now can do most of it via register-manipulation instead of copying. But at the end of the day, Windows STILL defaults to treating your glorious 32gb ocean of ram as a glorified ramdisk unless you force it to do otherwise.

  3. LOLZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    As if performance problems on Windows were caused by micro-latencies...
    Right, let's reclaim those 1-2% of performance, all while the antivirus is using half of the CPU cores to continuously scan the machine for viruses...
    For performance, the best fix would be to simply use something else.

    1. Re:LOLZ by Cederic · · Score: 1

      You use AV on performance sensitive machines?

    2. Re:LOLZ by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      2% isn't going to help much when the Meltdown patch just hit you for 50%.

      --
      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    3. Re:LOLZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you recommending we use PEDs - Performance Enhancing Distros?

    4. Re:LOLZ by TheFakeTimCook · · Score: 1

      2% isn't going to help much when the Meltdown patch just hit you for 50%.

      Exactly.

    5. Re:LOLZ by Bobrick · · Score: 1

      This. My video editing workstation has an AV installed for the duration of a scan, once per month, the rest of the time its resources are kept where they're needed and free of constant scanning, memory hogging and unwanted pop-ups.

    6. Re:LOLZ by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Except the meltdown patch just hit even worst case users by a fraction of that. 2% for many workloads is a significant portion of the meltdown dramas.

    7. Re:LOLZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's only about 20% from what I've seen with Windows. We have about 150 production servers and just ordered 25 more new ones from Dell because of the increased load. Until we get them running, which looks like it might take until July because of Dell, we've had to end all of our ad campaigns and disable features.

    8. Re:LOLZ by toddestan · · Score: 1

      Have you considered leaving the servers unpatched? In order to actually be affected, you would need to allow people to run arbitrary code on the servers. So it comes down to what the the servers do. It's a threat to desktop PCs because that's an actual use case if you browser the web with Javascript enabled, but if the servers are just serving up content they should, in theory, be fine.

      Of course, if you're doing something like hosting other people's websites or something like then you should probably patch.

  4. Why wasn't this an option before? by theraptor05 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I want my computer to run slow. Please leave Ultimate Performance off, maybe insert some extra latency in a few places just because... This is hardly a new requirement. For the work I do, Windows has always been looked past because it couldn't get out of it's own way when running high-performance or near real time code. It will never do actual real time (Microsoft could make that, but it wouldn't be called Windows), but why has this "Ultra Extreme Actually Fast" mode been so impossible in the past?

    1. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 2

      I want my computer to run slow. Please leave Ultimate Performance off, maybe insert some extra latency in a few places just because... This is hardly a new requirement. For the work I do, Windows has always been looked past because it couldn't get out of it's own way when running high-performance or near real time code. It will never do actual real time (Microsoft could make that, but it wouldn't be called Windows), but why has this "Ultra Extreme Actually Fast" mode been so impossible in the past?

      I'm sorry; most CPU cycles are needed to check your Windows license validity every nanosecond.

    2. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      maybe insert some extra latency in a few places just because

      You'll be glad to hear that Intel picked up Microsoft's slack with their new Meltdown and Spectre features.

    3. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I want my computer to run slow. Please leave Ultimate Performance off, maybe insert some extra latency in a few places just because...

      Maybe, just maybe try to read?
      TFS says that to achieve this "it throws power management out the window". Not something you usually want

    4. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So they're still all copying Apple, eh? Innovation is dead.

    5. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by goose-incarnated · · Score: 3, Informative

      I want my computer to run slow. Please leave Ultimate Performance off, maybe insert some extra latency in a few places just because...

      Everyone is missing the point - they aren't offering a slow and fast version of Windows, they are offering "meltdown-patch/no-meltdown-patch" versions.

      --
      I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
    6. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Opportunist · · Score: 2

      It's a bit like the help function. No matter what you are looking for, it always thinks you want to find out whether your copy of Windows is genuine.

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    7. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by m.alessandrini · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, they're needed to run "svchost.exe".

    8. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by edtice1559 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Congratulations on your +4 and I hope you get to +5. Even "high load" applications generally have very brief periods of CPU idle time. Maybe they are waiting for a page swap or to write out the result of some calculation to disk. If the CPU power manager sees 100ms of idle time, what should it do? Seems reasonable to cut the clock down as, for many (most) workloads, this would indicate that the CPU-bound portion is over. If CPU demand picks up, you can pick up the pace again. But how many ms of load do you need to see in order to decide that this is another high-workload period? For almost everything that normal people do, the latency to pick the clock rate back up when CPU demand rises is immeasurably small. For those specific situations where it would make a difference, it's not possible to tell the power manager to never slow the CPU even if completely idle for decades. The actual use for this is probably close to zero but you'll probably see people turn it on for the same reasons you see giant wings strapped to the back of 90 horsepower sedans.

    9. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      It was never impossible. You've always been able to tell Windows not to change the power state.

      --
      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    10. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by cdreimer · · Score: -1

      If you want a slow Windows PC, download Stardock and make Windows look like a Mac.

    11. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by jwhyche · · Score: 3

      You want a slow computer? I got a nice intel processor I can sell you.

      --
      I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
    12. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There you are again spamming amazon and youtube affiliate links with yet another fake account, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!

      You can be sure I will be watching this fake account too. I know this is you because you told me you were working on your freepass 11 file server and you are so dumb that you can't even masquerade yourself properly.

      Now, I told you I was out of meds last week and you didn't even care to contact me you lazy fucker.

      How many times do I have to express the emergency of the situation??????

      The python click script you wrote for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work!!!!!!

      You fucking incompetent python script writer!!!

      When it works, I get 4000+ clicks a day on my pheromone revenue stream web site but only 5 or 6 without it!!!!

      Now, it seems like you dont care and that you have abandoned me you heartless fucking pig!

      Bonus:
      Here is a story that creimer told me when convincing me what a hard life he had:

      The tree was him and the tree knot was his butt hole!

      So, his uncle packed his fat ass with lard and with his cock! Not that it makes much of a difference but anyway, there it is!

      Signed:
      Ethell, The girl that used to love you and now hates you, burn in hell where you belong you sexist pig!

    13. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 1

      Because most people are happy to trade a few percent performance for lower power consumption (including corporate users, for whom 10% less power consumption across 1000 machines is noticeable, and if the performance hit doesn't affect productivity then it's well worth it).

      --
      I am TheRaven on Soylent News
    14. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sorry but your copy & paste is shitty and you should feel bad :(

    15. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's very funny because you could just as easily fake all the views, clicks, and subscriptions you're depending on slashdot for. It's such a small small number that youtube wouldn't ever notice. Besides your "subscriber link" trick is already dishonest enough to get you a strike if some minimum wage tubemonkey decides they need to pad their weekly numbers, people routinely get random strikes for insanely minuscule transgressions.

      Like why don't you just get all the passwords for your google sockpuppet accounts and game your numbers over a proxy? Or ask your friends to give you that initial bump?
      I get what you're doing, a small number of clicks and shit will ensure you're near the top of the list if you generate content on topics that aren't on the social radar yet.... but what you're doing here is building a huge embarrassing internet footprint. If you ever get any sort of popularity the trolls will come. Find what you've done here, and blog about your every tiny mistake. It'll be funny because you'll get eaten alive by other assholes trying to grift for their own clickbait pennies with articles about your child bride fixations and creepy female impersonations.

      This! exactly This! One thousand times!

      I am an on-line marketer myself and creimer has been burnt for a long time because of what I emphasized in your text above. The fucker is just too stupid to realize it.

      You would put the fucker in an extra large boiling tank with warm water and turn on the heat and the fucker would be too dumb to get out if he could when it gets too hot.

      creimer already pissed off many of us by bringing attention to friendly advertising plugs on Slashdot, especially when posted as AC and the Slashdot moderators have become intolerant to posts containing friendly links, thus hurting us all. AC posts on Slashdot used to generate more clicks before creimer decided to go crazy.

      Everybody hates creimer, especially other online marketers and although I would never do anything illegal, I hear other marketers might when it comes to creimer.

      Good luck dumb ass!

    16. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't click on his homepage link! creimer is trying to get you to subscribe automatically to his youtube channel and make money off you!

      CREIMER' SUBMISSIONS UPDATE:
      Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma again by getting his submissions published as articles on /. so make sure to go to:
      https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
      https://slashdot.org/~criss69
      https://slashdot.org/~Anonymou...
      https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
      https://slashdot.org/~ILoveFat...
      https://slashdot.org/~IHateFat...
      https://slashdot.org/~IAteFatC...
      https://slashdot.org/~ITapeFat...
      https://slashdot.org/~IApeFatC...
      https://slashdot.org/~IPrayFat...
      https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
      and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!

      Yes, believe it or not, creimer owns all the above sock puppet accounts. It is a mystery why Slashdot management tolerates it!

      creimer wrote:

      I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!

      Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.

      creimer wrote:

      All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

      https://slashdot.org/comments....

      C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

      But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

      Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
      Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
      All the king's horses
      And all the king's men
      Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
      Together again.

      Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      Creimy's real pictures:
      Before the sex change:
      https://ibb.co/cc7Ddw
      After the sex change:
      https://ibb.co/gVad65

      Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:

    17. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      but why has this "Ultra Extreme Actually Fast" mode been so impossible in the past?

      LOL, because Microsoft has decided to do away with any separation from kernel and user modes, so when you get pwn3d it's now even faster.

    18. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's a bit like the help function. No matter what you are looking for, it always thinks you want to find out whether your copy of Windows is genuine.

      Which is right up there with all of those "Windows is searching for a solution to the problem" dialog boxes. I'm sorry, but you've never once found a fucking solution, so how about we stop pretending you will and skip this stupid step?

      MS has spent lots of time building wizards which can't solve problems, and very little time on the actual part which does anything. So can I just disable all of these useless "helpers" which don't actually offer me any benefit?

      As usual, the idea seems nice, but the execution invalidates any point whatsoever in having it. If you're going to not come up with an answer, and give me the same incorrect canned answer every time, then just shut up already.

    19. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      but why has this "Ultra Extreme Actually Fast" mode been so impossible in the past

      It's not been impossible. It's just been completely irrelevant. Chalk up another feature I'll never turn on because a 1% boost in performance isn't worth the battery life hit.

      As for being a realtime OS, you're right it never was, never will be and is not even remotely a design consideration. The same can be said about all desktop OSes except for those specifically designed for the purpose.

    20. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is not how scheduling works. The system knows when it is in a blocking state or an idle (sleep) state, or when it's using its full timeslice. Classic "interactivity" models give preference towards tasks which use as little of their timeslice as possible, either by sleeping or being pre-empted by a non-blocking task when it enters a blocking event (like disk I/O).

    21. Re: Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's the point of running Win10 a little faster on my workstation when the forced update and reboot cycle comes along and I lose all of my work?

      Can anyone please tell me how to stop Win10 reboots without the Enterprise version??

    22. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by viperidaenz · · Score: 1

      It doesn't know when they blocking even is going to finish. Sure, it'll get an interrupt from the DMA controller when DMA request is complete after instructing the SATA controller to fetch some data.
      The problem is, changing the clock frequency takes time.
      The system doesn't know how much processing the application is going to do before another blocking event happens either. It needs to make a compromise between keeping the current low speed clock and doing the work or increasing the the core voltage, waiting for that to stabilise, increasing the clock multiplier, waiting for the PLL to stabilise, then do the work.

      It may only be in the order of a few microseconds to change clock speeds, but that's thousands of cycles when you're talking about GHz speeds.

      Or you could keep the core at full voltage and speed and waste a lot of power, but gain those lost microseconds.

    23. Re:Why wasn't this an option before? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What it mean to be human? It mean make mistake, Chris.

  5. But Telemetry will still be turned on by IWantMoreSpamPlease · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Still gathering a ton of data, which at the very least will impact network throughput.

    --
    So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
    1. Re:But Telemetry will still be turned on by SuricouRaven · · Score: 4, Informative

      Try stopping it - run a traffic monitor and take a look. It takes a ridiculous amount of effort to disable all the spyware. It's not just a matter of changing a few buried registry settings, you have to deliberately break services that can't be disabled and use an external firewall because the Windows internal one has hard-coded exceptions.

    2. Re:But Telemetry will still be turned on by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Is there a place that lists all the ways that it phones home? Preferably in a format that can be inserted into an open source firewall?

    3. Re:But Telemetry will still be turned on by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      MS ain't stupid, it uses the same systems for updates that it uses for spying. If you want updates, you have to allow the spying.

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    4. Re:But Telemetry will still be turned on by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If you want updates, you have to allow the spying

      Restated: If you succeed in disabling spying, you won't need to spend any extra effort killing updates too.

    5. Re:But Telemetry will still be turned on by iampiti · · Score: 2

      Obviously the intent is making it so hard to disable so that few users will bother. They use a similar strategy (reverting default programs to Windows built ins from time to time) to get you to use the included apps.
      This is disgusting behaviour. That's the price we pay for Windows being the dominant desktop OS. If their marketshare was 50% or less they wouldn't dare to do that

    6. Re:But Telemetry will still be turned on by Bobrick · · Score: 1

      Perfect example of a win-win scenario.

    7. Re:But Telemetry will still be turned on by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 1

      I can disable Microsoft spyware in three easy steps:
      Step #1: Backup important files
      Step #2: Install {your favorite flavor of} Linux
      Step #3: Restore important files
      See? Wasn't that easy?

    8. Re: But Telemetry will still be turned on by dunkelfalke · · Score: 1

      I don't have a favourite flavour of Linux - all of them suck in subtly different ways. I don't know what happened - around 2003 Linux looked almost ready for the desktop, but then it became really uncomfortable to use.

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    9. Re:But Telemetry will still be turned on by Kjella · · Score: 1

      That's the price we pay for Windows being the dominant desktop OS. If their marketshare was 50% or less they wouldn't dare to do that

      Microsoft was a dominant OS for a long time without doing any di.... without doing these dirty tricks. This is a direct consequence of Win10 becoming "free", though they still charge OEMs a few bucks for powerful machines. Since getting consumers to upgrade is no longer what brings in cash it's all about monetizing the users you have. It'll probably work too, Facebook is "free". Gmail is "free". Windows is "free". The vast majority seem to like it that way.

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    10. Re:But Telemetry will still be turned on by iampiti · · Score: 1

      Yes, it's obvious Google-style user monetization. The problem is that they haven't given an option to opt out of that by paying money. Even apps for smartphones most of the time let you choose between free with ads and paid without.

    11. Re: But Telemetry will still be turned on by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 1

      Well, then I guess you learn to enjoy having Microsoft own your computer, and additionally having Microsoft up your ass every single time you use it. Sucks to be you.

    12. Re: But Telemetry will still be turned on by dunkelfalke · · Score: 1

      Still beats using Linux, though. And I say that as someone who develops Linux applications for a living.

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  6. Does it come with a spoiler? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And racing stripes? You know, so you can tell the difference...

    1. Re:Does it come with a spoiler? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, but you can get aftermarket flames on Slashdot.

  7. Still won't be maximum performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As telemetry will still be on.

  8. Time to sue! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So Microsoft has been slowing down our PCs all this time based on what they feel we should draw for power? This will affect far more people and businesses than Apple slowing down phones, I want in on this lawsuit.

  9. And apple users continue to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    yep, got your attention, rightfully. Apple users continue to receive updates to os x...er macOS..forgive me.. that make the experience more and more childish and tablet like.The gloom of evil bill gates is over, guys. Microsoft got the best gaming system and more reliable OS than Apple dreamers. macOS is a disappointment in design during the present. It's great to see MS come forward with their performance platform. I'll happy to hear more updates, cheers!

  10. Better Idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How about Microsoft actually test their Windows 10 shit and fix the bugs before worrying about features and tweaks. It is getting real old having everybody I know hounding me to fix their fucked up Windows 10 machine that broke something else on update. I'll bet the Geek Squad is cleaning up.

    1. Re:Better Idea by rickb928 · · Score: 1

      Everybody you know is a problem. Neither of my Windows 10 machines have had update troubles for a year or more. One has never blue screened in over two years. The other, after installing an unusual compiler for an ARM project, it hated me for a day. My Surface Pro 3 fingerprint bug turned out to be a bad type cover.

      Fix the people you know, buddy. You need better clients.

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    2. Re:Better Idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, your massive sample of three machines is *very* convincing data, we must conclude that Win10 is entirely bug free and anyone who claims otherwise is stupid or deluded or lying.

    3. Re:Better Idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Everybody you know is a problem. Neither of my Windows 10 machines have had update troubles for a year or more. One has never blue screened in over two years. The other, after installing an unusual compiler for an ARM project, it hated me for a day. My Surface Pro 3 fingerprint bug turned out to be a bad type cover.

      Fix the people you know, buddy. You need better clients.

      And this is exactly why you Microsoft shills are such assholes. You think that you, as a presumably knowledgeable user because you have a Slashdot account, are a good representation of the great unwashed masses. Most people think their computers are magic boxes. I know one guy that had three broken machines bought six months apart each. There was nothing wrong with any of them besides software. After the third one broke, he called. When they were all restored, he had three working machines less than two years old. That's how a lot of people "fix" their computers. They buy a new one.

      Once you get a reputation of knowing how to fix the broken driver issues, bad updates, and other assorted shit in Windows 10, you get calls from friends, co-workers, and relatives. My clients pay for me to resurrect their Windows 10 machines. It's hard to charge a good friend who is absolutely helpless to make his computer work. And who knows, maybe I'll need his help some day.

      If you weren't such an arrogant dick, you might realize that.

    4. Re:Better Idea by rickb928 · · Score: 1

      "everybody I know" being such a more credible sample. Yeah. I quantified my sample.

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  11. n1gger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    asswipe

  12. Will it still reboot randomly all the time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Windows is terrible now. It keeps rebooting all the time, you have to keep putting off updates for later.
    And even with 16GB of memory it manages to somehow run out of memory with nothing open.

    1. Re:Will it still reboot randomly all the time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can you show me a screencap of resource monitor that has nothing running yet is using 16gb of ram?

    2. Re:Will it still reboot randomly all the time? by ArtemaOne · · Score: 1

      Sounds like you have Malware. I put 32 GB in my system back home and rarely see it get above 8 GB in intense games even.

    3. Re:Will it still reboot randomly all the time? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sure, give me a couple of weeks.
      My PC decided it needed to reboot yesterday.

  13. This will be used for coin mining by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Instead of any useful work.

  14. Double overhead gofasters by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 1

    I used to work with a sales manager who talked about selling the quote-unquote double overhead gofasters to Rubes who did not understand that a working product was a standard feature. This sounds like something similar.

  15. So long failing Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    This is the last piece of the puzzle. I can now run any open source Linux app I need using the Linux subsystem but I can do it with FULL hardware support, no crashes or endless open source licensing problems, and at a way better performance level than you can get with any version of Linux ever made.

    1. Re:So long failing Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Donald, is that you? You somehow typoed "twitter.com"...

    2. Re:So long failing Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stuff it Pocacuntass

  16. I want crappy performance mode by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ultra performance... meh...Wake me up when there is an ultra crappy performance mode.

    I like my computers like I like my women, slow and full of viruses.

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    1. Re:I want crappy performance mode by the_skywise · · Score: 1

      lol - I want crappy performance mode so I can run my old windows games properly!

  17. Microsoft has been slowing down computers? by QuietLagoon · · Score: 2

    And now wants money to turn off that "feature"?

    1. Re:Microsoft has been slowing down computers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And now wants money to turn off that "feature"?

      Can’t wait for the crowd to realize what you’re really saying so I can hear all the silly reasons this is so different, like one is a computer and one is windows, or Apple’s ‘monopoly’ on smartphones.

  18. Here's how you could boost performance even more! by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Disable data collection and spying on us. Frees up CPU resources as well as network resources.

    And I'd dare say that it would be easy to implement, no tweaking necessary. All it takes is flipping a few compiler switches...

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  19. Forced reboots make this meaningless. by mukinrestak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't matter how much performance they can wrangle when the OS still forces reboots for updates in the middle of compiling, encoding, rendering, etc.

    You can't "just save" some things.

    1. Re:Forced reboots make this meaningless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It doesn't matter how much performance they can wrangle when the OS still forces reboots for updates in the middle of compiling, encoding, rendering, etc.

      Ah, this old lie.

      For Windows 10 to reboot for a patch, it needs to be "outside prime usage hours" (which are laughably limited to 12), you need to have clicked your consent on the popup to schedule the update, the popup warning you that the schedule is approaching, and the popup asking if it is time to apply the patch.

      That some news stations had an intern click the finally 'ok' on the system that shows the weather maps (probably with no idea that it was a shared-purpose computer) doesn't make your lie any more true.

    2. Re:Forced reboots make this meaningless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That isn't the way it works. After installing an update, it will pop up a dialog box with three options: Restart, Pick a time, and Snooze. Restart will restart your computer immediately, Pick a time lets you pick a time that day to install updates, and Snooze (or not responding at all) will wait three days from the time the update finished and then automatically restart at the next "outside prime usage hours," if set, or immediately at the expiration, if not. Depending on the work the machine is doing, or what the workday looks like, that could still take you by surprise.

    3. Re:Forced reboots make this meaningless. by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Oh you're getting forced reboots during your code compiling? I'm genuinely impressed you can get any code to compile at all if you can't even change you settings to prevent the scenario you describe.

      I can recommend a good book for programmers: "How to change windows settings for dummies".

    4. Re:Forced reboots make this meaningless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > you need to have clicked your consent on the popup to schedule the update
      This is plainly not true.
      If you wait long enough it will reboot, even if you don't click anything.
      Maybe they changed this recently, but that is how it was in the beginning.
      Also, notice that there is nowhere to click: don't install this.
      Only delay the install.

    5. Re:Forced reboots make this meaningless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Also, notice that there is nowhere to click: don't install this.
      Only delay the install.

      Wow, entitled idiots. This is the same web site that ranted loudly about how users being allowed to ignore security updates was responsible for botnets and significant other damages. Now you idiots want to ignore security updates, and spend half your time libeling about an OS you don't even use and have never used.

      It NEVER auto-resets. Half the time when I schedule an update for a time I am away, it still doesn't perform and I have to reset manually after I get home.

    6. Re:Forced reboots make this meaningless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It doesn't matter how much performance they can wrangle when the OS still forces reboots for updates in the middle of compiling, encoding, rendering, etc.

      Ah, this old lie.

      For Windows 10 to reboot for a patch, it needs to be "outside prime usage hours" (which are laughably limited to 12), you need to have clicked your consent on the popup to schedule the update, the popup warning you that the schedule is approaching, and the popup asking if it is time to apply the patch.

      That some news stations had an intern click the finally 'ok' on the system that shows the weather maps (probably with no idea that it was a shared-purpose computer) doesn't make your lie any more true.

      This is not true at all. My windows 10 laptop (on which I run Linux in virtualbox) gets rebooted all the time without me clicking jack. It doesn't even properly shutdown my virtualbox instance, which has caused corruption multiple times. Yes I should just not have windows there at all, but it's a requirement for warranty reasons as it's a work laptop.

    7. Re:Forced reboots make this meaningless. by theCoder · · Score: 1

      My corporate supplied computer at work doesn't have many settings to change.

      And I have never associated Windows with performance. Unless it is "poor" performance. As a simple example, the software I develop at work takes about 4 hours to completely build and test on Linux. It takes about 60 hours to do the same on Windows. And that is after copying every single needed file to the local hard drive (while Linux gets almost everything from the network). By the time Linux is done, Windows is about half way through cleaning. Now a lot of this poor performance is probably from the shear amount of spyware installed on the system (by corporate) to monitor everything that goes on. But since you have to run that sort of monitoring software on Windows, even if it is only a virus scanner, Windows will always be slower than Linux. So "Ultimate Performance" of Windows just seems like a bad joke.

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    8. Re:Forced reboots make this meaningless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My corporate supplied computer at work doesn't have many settings to change.

      And I have never associated Windows with performance. Unless it is "poor" performance. As a simple example, the software I develop at work takes about 4 hours to completely build and test on Linux. It takes about 60 hours to do the same on Windows. And that is after copying every single needed file to the local hard drive (while Linux gets almost everything from the network). By the time Linux is done, Windows is about half way through cleaning. Now a lot of this poor performance is probably from the shear amount of spyware installed on the system (by corporate) to monitor everything that goes on. But since you have to run that sort of monitoring software on Windows, even if it is only a virus scanner, Windows will always be slower than Linux. So "Ultimate Performance" of Windows just seems like a bad joke.

      I'm not sure if this is a valid question, but does terminating your network connection (unplugging Ethernet or going into "airplane" mode) while compiling reduce the amount your CPU is committing to processing network traffic and releases the CPU to commit more processing to compiling? Do you need to be networked to compile?

  20. performance levels explained. by nimbius · · Score: 5, Funny

    for some of the more linux-savvy slashdotters performance levels might seem abstract and vague. as a Microsoft engineer, I can explain these pretty quickly.

    regular performance: Windows performs per normal with some features and functions disabled. this is for your protection, as the tome of windows cannot be simply 'closed' once opened.
    high performance: eliminates microlatencies caused by the thin veil of reality that separates you from pure, raw windows. High performance mode switches cortanas voice to Vin Diesel, and the background to a moistened and slightly unstable steve ballmer who has a random chance to shout 'DEVELOPERS' when clicking any item.
    ultimate performance: God is dead and you now sit upon the throne in this wasteland of pure and unadulterated windows. The seals have been unlocked and the runes aligned as you see once and for all the true blistering power of Minesweeper. Cortana is replaced with a cursed portrait of W.E.B. Du-Buois into which you whisper your darkest desires (and save your passwords.) The startup sound is the entire 16 hour watergate deposition. the shutdown sound is a sacrosanct quote of your last words before you die as theyve been divined from the future.
    Also, SSH is enabled.

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    1. Re:performance levels explained. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Thanks for the info!

      Actually, the way I understood it, it has to do with Microsoft's "Green" initiatives -- you know, the one that made Windows 10 be much more aggressive about powering down unused devices and services, underclocking processors/turning off cores, and trying to actively use as little power as possible while things are "idle."
      (Remember the hoopla about Win 10 turning off all USB ports on a computer to save power? And how they've mandated two "always on" USB ports for the mouse and keyboard on new motherboards?)

      Now they have a mode where they turn all the checks off and allow everything to run at max, even if all it's doing is sitting there "idling" for all of two seconds while stuff are being fetched from the hard drive/NAS.

    2. Re:performance levels explained. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I wish I had points to give.

    3. Re:performance levels explained. by vux984 · · Score: 1

      "ultimate performance: God is dead and you now sit upon the throne in this wasteland of pure and unadulterated windows. The seals have been unlocked and the runes aligned as you see once and for all the true blistering power of Minesweeper. Cortana is replaced with a cursed portrait of W.E.B. Du-Buois into which you whisper your darkest desires (and save your passwords.) The startup sound is the entire 16 hour watergate deposition. the shutdown sound is a sacrosanct quote of your last words before you die as theyve been divined from the future."

      Ah, so it just boots to Windows 95 then. Gotcha. ;)

    4. Re:performance levels explained. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Charlie is that you?

    5. Re:performance levels explained. by rsilvergun · · Score: 1

      *Golf Clap*.

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  21. This will be good for Teams by SalsaDot · · Score: 1

    Finally Teams will be able to get all the CPU it needs just tor me to type in a message. Damn thing spins up my i7 NUC's fan per keystroke.

  22. Congratulations, Microsoft... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... you've reinvented the Turbo button from the PC/AT. Press it once, always leave it on.

  23. Too bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It still requires the use of data stealing, always surveilling, Windows. No thanks.

  24. Clueless... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't think MS knows what low latency means. Sometimes a context switch can take 800 ms on a Windows machine. It doesn't matter which version - they all have craptastic latency problems.

  25. Does this mean Black Viper is out of a job? by ArhcAngel · · Score: 1

    I've been tweaking any box I run that requires Windows using recommendations from Black Viper for YEARS! It's a handy resource. It's amazing seeing everything that is running in the background.

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  26. Does this disable OneDrive? by hackertourist · · Score: 2

    Because OneDrive has replaced antivirus as the single biggest performance drain on my computer. I regularly find OD pegging one of my cores at 100% load.

  27. What an idea! by GoTeam · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a good start Microsoft. Now they need to invent a way that you can toggle this feature on and off with a physical button. They could put the button on the case, but they'd have to put a word above it to describe what it does... Maybe "Turbo"? Yes, they should invent the turbo button. That's forward thinking!!!!

    1. Re:What an idea! by zifn4b · · Score: 1

      Nice try. The turbo button was a way to change the FSB multipler which is a hardware feature not an operating system feature.

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  28. cpu mining is dead and GPU is not so hot as well by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

    cpu mining is dead and GPU is not so hot as well.

  29. mar8e by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    the 4roject as a

  30. What a joke by Murdoch5 · · Score: 1

    If Windows isn't already tuned to give you raw horse power and performance, then switch to Linux based OS.

    1. Re:What a joke by zifn4b · · Score: 1

      If Windows isn't already tuned to give you raw horse power and performance, then switch to Linux based OS.

      As soon as Linux runs all the games and apps we know and love, it will be the end of Microsoft.

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  31. Meanwhile, for the plebs running Windows Home... by Joce640k · · Score: 2

    "Whatâ(TM)s new in Build 17101 & Build 17604
    Input Improvements

    Emoji design updates: Based on your feedback and to improve consistency, we've made adjustments to the design of some of our emoji.

    Emoji search comes to more languages: Earlier in RS4, we updated the Emoji Panel to support browsing and picking emoji in many new locales. With today's build, we're bringing search support to more locales too! Now you can find an emoji by keyword in over 150 locales, including English (Great Britain), French (France), German (Germany), Spanish (Spain), and more. This will help you get the emoji you want easily and quickly."

    So there's valuable improvements for ordinary users, not just the Pros.

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  32. With Windows, You Are Already A Loser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you're a professional and using Windows, you've already lost. There is no saving you from using such an inadequate and Orwellian operating system that sends all your information back to the Corporation and Government.

    With this ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE RAWRRRRR mode, information will be sent more often and flagged for review automatically, making you a target for surveillance by the alphabet agencies.

  33. Re:Meanwhile, for the plebs running Windows Home.. by bondsbw · · Score: 2

    I don't know that I've seen a product update in the past couple of months that doesn't have emoji updates.

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  34. Windows officially goes to 11! by Megol · · Score: 1

    It's one faster.

    1. Re:Windows officially goes to 11! by zifn4b · · Score: 1

      No it really doesn't. It shipped at about 8-9 and now disables its own bloatware so it can actually go to 10.

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  35. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  36. creimer spam alert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't click on his homepage link! creimer is trying to get you to subscribe automatically to his youtube channel and make money off you!

    CREIMER' SUBMISSIONS UPDATE:
    Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on /. so make sure to go to:
    https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
    https://slashdot.org/~criss69
    https://slashdot.org/~Anonymou...
    https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
    https://slashdot.org/~ILoveFat...
    https://slashdot.org/~IHateFat...
    https://slashdot.org/~IAteFatC...
    https://slashdot.org/~ITapeFat...
    https://slashdot.org/~IApeFatC...
    https://slashdot.org/~IPrayFat...
    https://slashdot.org/~FatCashe...
    and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!

    Yes, believe it or not, creimer owns all the above sock puppet accounts. It is a mystery why Slashdot management tolerates it!

    creimer wrote:

    I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!

    Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.

    creimer wrote:

    All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

    But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

    Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
    Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
    All the king's horses
    And all the king's men
    Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
    Together again.

    Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like. Note that Creimy takes care of bringing a lot of food to the moon as depicted below:
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    Creimy's real pictures:
    Before the sex change:
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    After the sex change:
    https://ibb.co/gVad65

    Creimy's "enterprise-level" chair, he talks about it all the time on slashdot:

    1. Re: creimer spam alert! by ModernGeek · · Score: 1

      Does the youtube auto subscribe button actually work? Youâ(TM)d think theyâ(TM)d be smart enough to check the relevant headers.

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    2. Re: creimer spam alert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not exactly. It brings up youtube with a dialog box asking if you really want to subscribe.
      So of course most people will click no but creimer knows that some astronomically small percentage of visitors will accidentally click subscribe. IMHO it shouldn't do anything because it's highly unlikely that anyone wants to subscribe to a youtube channel that was linked offsite and they haven't even had a chance to explore.

      The concept of shadiness is completely lost on creimer though. If anything engaging in dishonest behavior makes him feel like a big businessman.
      As a side note, it might be good to make sure you reply to creimer threads as AC since you could get indiscriminately modded down and posting above zero helps increase the visibility of his bullshit destroying our containment grid.

    3. Re:creimer spam alert! by easyTree · · Score: 1

      You know things are bad when you're trolling yourself...

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    4. Re:creimer spam alert! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am not creimer you troll.

      I am creimer adopted sister you noob creimertard!

      Note that we don't exactly look alike!

      Don't believe me?

      Here is my Jessica Christine Reimer twitter account:

      https://twitter.com/jessicacre...

  37. "Quit the Finder" by Chaset · · Score: 1

    Option available on some ancient mac programs in the System 6-9 era. You can force quit the Finder (vague analogous to Windows Explorer, the standard built-in file browser) so that you can run those programs that need just a little bit more memory and processor time.

    This reminds me of that.

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    1. Re:"Quit the Finder" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You could just kill the explorer process and Windows NT will run fine. Some versions will automatically restart that program.

    2. Re:"Quit the Finder" by subanark · · Score: 1

      Not really processor time. MacOS back then didn't have a thread interrupts. Once your application's thread is running it keeps going until it gives back control to the OS or you hit the debug button.

  38. Need "Ludicrous Speed" by grumpy-cowboy · · Score: 2

    Let me know when you support Ludicrous Speed! ;)

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  39. Or back to 7 by DarkRookie · · Score: 1

    You could always roll back to 7. 7 is a lot faster on my rig than 10. YMMV thou

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    The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
  40. Engadget Article is junk by zifn4b · · Score: 1
    No real content and then in an article titled "Windows 10 Is Adding an Ultimate Performance Mode For Pros", we have this paragraph at the bottom as extra filler because there wasn't really any content:

    There are additions for people using everyday PCs. Like Samsung, Microsoft is moving toward more familiar emoji. It also helps you search for those emoji in more languages, and provides you more control over file system access for Universal Windows Platform apps. As a rule, though, this preview is aimed at pros who want to see how well a workstation can run when there's nothing holding it back.

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  41. Windows high performance by linear+a · · Score: 1

    I've seen those words before, but never in the same sentence.

  42. Wouldn't be necessary if by nehumanuscrede · · Score: 2

    Microsoft would turn off or disable all the silly unnecessary bullshit running in the background.

    Cortana, all the Telemetry crap, and probably a big chunk of all the running processes that are enabled by default.

  43. There was more than one turbo button. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There was more than one turbo button.

    1. Re:There was more than one turbo button. by zifn4b · · Score: 1

      There are all kinds of turbo buttons. What's your point?

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    2. Re:There was more than one turbo button. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That you're being a douchetastic, assberger-having, know-it-all. You're being too damned literal and now wanna argue about it. Don't you have some Dungeonmaster to go annoy the fuck out of?

    3. Re:There was more than one turbo button. by zifn4b · · Score: 1

      Aweeeee... you're such an adorable sociopath with all your insults. How's that superiority complex treating you? Did you get your daily quota of insults to make your fragile ego feel better? Maybe you should call your Mommy?

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  44. Believe Team Creimer! Believe! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Believe Team Creimer! Believe!

    You are not believing strongly enough. If you do believe in your dreams strongly enough, those noob creimertard trolls will vanish automatically, your youtube channel will go up to be the most popular youtube channel ever and you will get rich like creimy the mountain.

    Never let any naysayer get in the way of your dreams Team Creimer!

    Team Creimer dreams:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    I have just closed my eyes again
    Climbed aboard the Team Creimer train
    Driver take away my worries of today
    And leave tomorrow behind

    Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
    Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light

    Fly me high through the starry skies
    Or maybe to an astral plane
    Cross the highways of fantasy
    Help me to forget today's pain

    Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
    Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light

    Though the dawn may be coming soon
    There still may be some time
    Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
    And meet me on the other side

    Team Creimer, I believe you can get me through the night
    Team Creimer, I believe we can reach the morning light

    1. Re:Believe Team Creimer! Believe! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am not creimer. I talk shit about the fat bastard as well. However, a lot of the copy & pastes (including yours) aren't funny or clever.

    2. Re:Believe Team Creimer! Believe! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We know you are not creimer Chris, I mean Jessica, you are his adoptive sister. But you are still a member of team creimer, aren't you?.

      On the other hand, we know creimer likes to impersonate girls so how could we be sure?

      I am creimer adopted sister you noob creimertard!

      Note that we don't exactly look alike!

      Don't believe me?

      Here is my Jessica C Reimer twitter account:

      https://twitter.com/jessicacre...

    3. Re:Believe Team Creimer! Believe! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Have you no respect for the dead?
      https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/504488/christopher-reimer-women-guitarist-dead-at-26

    4. Re:Believe Team Creimer! Believe! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shit, reimy has no respect for the LIVING!

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  46. Affiliate offer for Team Creimer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Dear Team Creimer,

    My YouTube channel has 222K subscribers and many videos with hundreds of thousands of views:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Now, with some slight adjustments, I think that together, we could make the view count skyrocket on your very own Team Creimer youtube channel :)

    Please feel confident to contact me if you want me to coach you, we aren't living so far away from each other so we could even easily meet.

    Love XX,

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  48. Laptops by Miamicanes · · Score: 1

    In case anybody's wondering why the mode is disabled for laptops, it's because quite a few literally *can't* run for extended periods of time at full-bore speed without overheating. For YEARS, companies like Toshiba were advertising specs based on CPU specs, but underclocking them behind the scenes to reduce heat. Most current laptops can (mostly) run at full-speed without crashing, but will gradually cook their electrolytic capacitors & other components to death if you insist.

    Now, the big question is... what's Microsoft's definition of "laptop", and how does Windows decide? Is a mini-ITX "desktop" with mobile i5 a desktop or a laptop? How about a Clevo-made gaming beast with a "desktop" i7 & discrete (but semi-proprietary) graphics card that -- electronically -- is still PCIe (with nonstandard form factor)?

  49. It's the '80s Turbo Button all over again by woobieman29 · · Score: 1

    Some of you might remember the PC/XT and AT clones back on the day that had the flashy "TURBO" button on the front that would increase or even double your processor clock speed, and was marketed as something of an upgrade. The reality of it was that this switch actually cut your clock speed in half. Tons of old DOS programs used to just run as fast as the processor would let them, so older games would run at ridiculous speeds on these newer machines with their sweeet 16mhz processors or whatever. Manufacturers needed a way to slow the processor down to make the older programs usable, so they added the switch. Normal position had the clock speed set to half of maximum, or similar, while pressing that big TURBO button didn't really do anything except let the processors use it's full speed. I know this is different, but it just sort of seems like the same type of bs.

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  50. -o- by easyTree · · Score: 1

    How about dealing with the basics first, like that ability to walk away from the computer with your multi-application state arranged as you see fit and return WITHOUT FINDING THAT ALL YOUR PREPARATION HAS BEEN LOST BECAUSE WINDOWS USES A DEAD-MAN SWITCH METAPHOR when asking for permission to reboot to install updates!

    What the hell is wrong with you people?

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  51. He went full Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Never go full Windows.