Recent content by Col_Temp

Not necessarily as you could span across several drives for one large drive. The RAID gives you the ability to use that spanned drive and prevent a disk failure from crashing the whole spanned drive. Also that would allow you to use smaller drives and save money and still get the large capacity...

Hard to add much to the already great advice. I also have some 10+ year-old servers been trying to get the customers to upgrade for a few years now. I too echo, yes it's time to replace and upgrade the hardware. Also, there seems to be som much better support for the server and tools to monitor...

RAID was going to be my suggestion as well. You could use a Raid 5 or 10 and just add a drive enclosure with some smaller but way cheaper drives. Also, consider making sure you get some drives that will last with lots of read-write cycles if you are looking at SSD's. Might find it better to...

I have an old working pull Sonciwall TZ205. These were very complex firewalls 10 years ago. Never got around to using it for anything and its far enough out of date that I will likely not use it for anything. Plus I am wrapping up my IT business so it's taking up space now. Has the power cord...

Greetings Forum members. I was fairly active a while ago and got some great info. Well now that I am finally winding my business down it's time to get rid of a bunch of stuff left over from past projects and partnerships. I have several things to pass on hoping they can find a home where...

Thanks for the tips. Going to work on them. Nice thing is I have a way to remote execute this stuff as the admin or through the system account. Thanks for the warning going to try it on my machine first and see. This is kind of what I needed to get started. Been too long since I had to do this...

You need to roll back to 1909 the newest update was the 2004 update. Find that and remove it. If necessary you might want to use Windows Creator and reinstall at 1909. The Microsoft website will have that for you to do. The biggest issue of you need to think of is the 2004 update is like...

Been there done that a while ago now. One nice thing about Windows 10 is the current installer is usually pretty close to the current install. Whereas Win 7 and before it was install the base. Run updates about 10 times so you could reboot and get batchews of updates done. Oh yeah and spend 4-5...

Hi all, Not sure if this is exactly the right place for this. If not Mods please move it. So here is the problem I've got. Windows is getting slower again with all the stupid update services, tasks, and general garbage running int he background. What I would like to do is set up a script in...

Sometimes that is true and sometimes it was good old Windows. Have had to rescue a couple of people due to corrupted profiles and other issues with the last couple of updates. The 2004 seems to be holding it was the updates to 1909 that caused problems. Wish as well they woudl fix the three...

FIFY Yeah the last couple of updates have had some issues. I've been running into some strange stuff as well. Also have had a few profiles corrupt. There are times you wish you could be like Linux and never upgrade. But then again it you don't you get more vulnerable. Thanks for posting the...

:) If you have the cash might as well! Problem is too many people are partially out of work and need to save cash. Sounds like it would be a great time to pick up an older card, save the cash and use it for something that might last a bit longer! Just saying. Though I am sure the new card will...

Around 16GB at the moment for most things seems to be the sweet spot. A bunch here do a whole lot more than the usual office worker so 32 or 64 makes more sense. 8GB usually works just fine but we have been defaulting to 16GB at least for systems that have more memory hungry apps like Accounting...

You would think that most of these memory leaks would have been solved long ago. Surprised that one has not been pulled and fixed. Thanks again for sharing. Reminds to monitor a couple of customer PC's. Might be a driver that is the problem!

To add to the ongoing discussion. Local backups are nice until you have a flood, power surge, fire or other disaster. The you are quite likely totally hosed. I always recommend to my customers with how cheap cloud storage is now to in addition to local backup always have a cloud based backup...