Don't pull out the USB flash drive ! (and other Windows Myths that people still believe are true!) 

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Very true Armstrong1803. Been watching him for a couple of years help me a lot with my tech stuff, I’ve finally created a RU-vid account to subscribe and like all my favorite RU-vidrs 😸

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of course. If you pick a no-name-brand one that is free and harvests your data its not going to behave like one from a reputable company who spend millions into making sure it doesn't intefere with your system.

@@LironSegev So true, I 100% agree. When it comes to Anti-Virus or more common now is Internet Security to be very sure always get a well-known paid! package.

@@JasonWestaway Largely agree, but I would say (for example) that Kaspersky's free AV is better that many "well-known" competitors' paid packages.

The worst anti virus (from personal usage ) is McAfee and Protegent360(protegent360 has orange super why as the mascot☠️)

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Appreciate you being here and same to you!

Appreciate you being here 🔥 and same to you

Appreciate you - and happy holidays!

Thank you Liron!

Happy to help and happy holidays to you. More to come 🔥

Defragging SSD only make sense in one case, that is when you sure that you will not be modifying the content of the SSD afterward, but even then the benefit are too small to be humanly noticeable. What are that hardly noticeable benefit? the OS will issue less commands to the SSD in order to read files that are defragmented compared to more multiple commands queue for the same files but more fragmented.

On Linux it is in the event you remove while it is writing meta data to the file system and I assume it is the same for Windows, for example it gets into a state where what the filesystem says is different from what is actually on the device though this can easily be fixed by demounting the filesystem and repairing it.

Similarly, for several years I had occasional problems where LibreOffice refused to let go of a file. Had to shut down the PC at least a few times to get LO to release. Since there's been no recent events I wonder if they solved it. Other software has had this glitch as well, but it was many years back. However, glitches like this should only mess with the associated file(s), not the thumb drive (?). Not ready to test hot removal after an LO session yet, but considering it.

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Yes please! haha - thanks for watching!

hmmm if its the same USB stick, it may be faulty. If its the same computer, the port may be the issue. Try the same USB stick in someone elses computer and see if it works.

​@@LironSegevI have had a USB stick work in my PC but my mother's PC did not recognize it as being plugged in. But another USB stick would work in my mother's port. 🤷‍♀️

It also happens to me. So ... I'm not convinced yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

windows 10/11 uses trim automatically don't worry about that HDD has read/write head so if the bits of a files are split up(fragmented) it made accessing them slow but not for ssd coz ssd's have no moving parts

Sorry but no idea - I don't do any Mac stuff

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oh my!!! I saw that some ATM are still running Windows XP so I guess this stuff is still out there....scary

@@LironSegev In manufacturing, depending on when a system was developed. They are still using the original software which is Windows 95 because to upgrade would be too costly. I came across systems from two different manufacturing industries with Windows 95 being used and the systems still work with minor exceptions.

I wonder what about security?

@@LironSegev The last one was a laser welding system and it was offline and updates to the program were by USB. The first one was in 2015 and was on the company's network. But, I was a technician and not working in IT for that company at the time. So, unfortunately, I don't recall the full situation.

@@LironSegev *HAHAHAHAHAHAHA*

I hear you - And Windows Defender has come from useless to being really good and yet they tell people to turn that off too!!! its ridiculous.

if its in the middle of writing to it then it can get corrupt. If its happening often, you might want to reformat the USB stick and try again. If that is still happening often it may be a corrupt USB stick so try another one.

@@LironSegev , formatting the usb, then go into disk management and set that USB to Simple volume then format it again. you might have to use easus free to go to the USB and opt to have it create a MBR for the drive.

@@LironSegev Thank you.

gald to help settle that "argument" 😜 - and merry christmas to you!

technically it could but unlikley these days. However, a power SURGE could have an impact on the hardware which is why we always use a UPS to make sure the computer doesn't get fried.

Glad you enjoyed it

I run McAfee on one of my systems. How much ram do you have?

@@LironSegev 16 GB-- it's not the RAM (Teams uses that all up ;) )-- it's the CPU that gets pegged at 100% while it fights with FireEye for whatever available resources my system still has. In order to get any actual work done, I have to use a jumppbox that has Defender for Endpoint/Identity/whatever they are calling it now instead of Trellix.

If its an old computer, shutting down is probably a good idea but if its a newer computer, they tend to have great power management and you can set them to go into sleep mode after not being used for x number of minutes. I leave mine on all the time as at night I have my updates happening and my backup going and my computer is connected to the UPS so I am not too worried about power surges. There is nothing wrong with switching off the computer either. So its a personal prefrence.

@@LironSegev i often set my pc to Hibernate, and that is great, but ever so often when i move the mouse to wake it up, it does not load the signin page and get stuck on a blank desktop background picture, so I have to restart the pc to get to the signin screen. any thoughts as to why that is happening?

@@crabbypaddy5549 You just press a key on your keyboard

@@crabbypaddy5549 what, why is your system reacting to mouse on S4, S4 should power off the system completely...

No sense in leaving it running if nothing is going on (scheduled downloads or tasks, remote access, etc). There's the potential of something going wrong when the PC is left unattended, which is mitigated simply by shutting down.

Are you using a wired connection? If so, then make sure it is one that is capable of data transfer. It will state on the packaging

if you are using a cable be sure that phone settings are not "charge" instead of "transfer"

how much free space do you have on your drive? Here is how you can clean it out and get valuable space back: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U4132uo1oXc.html

If it's an hard drive, that's the issue number one. Number two is your search indexer service, disable asap. Number three is your page file and swap file. If you don't do super intensive tasks and get to 100% RAM frequently, you don't need either of those, you can also disable them. Also tip for making a HDD system faster, turn off/on and reboot as less as possible. Reboot for windows updates, turn back off and on in emergency situations, for everything else, always hybernate your system when you stop using the pc for the day or you leave it for a break. Resuming your complete session with programs already opened and loaded on your workflow will take like 1-2 minutes from pressing the power button, instead of staring for 5 minutes at your desktop after logging in the user and waiting for the taskbar to appear and become responsive after a reboot ,and then having to reopen all programs (even just firefox with a couple of tabs can take a full minute or two) and resume your work. Source: was a Win 10 HDD laptop (6th gen i5 U processor) user until last year.

everyone has that choice - by default you don't have to change it.

Never had that happen even once. What kind of low quality SD cards are you using?

I try - but there are a lot😜

probably - but you know how people like to complain when something they never use is taken away....😜

It does it to optimize the way it access the data so there is no need to then manually so it again and again. The system knows what it needs to do so let it.

Myth. From a performance point of view there is nothing wrong with installing everything to the C drive where the OS is. The problem is only when you run out of space on the hard drive and then performance suffers. From a security point of view, it used to be safer to install the OS on the C drive and everything else on the D drive so if you got hit by a virus it wouldn't take out the data. That is no longer the case as viruses go through all your drives so it doesnt really matter.

Thnx for the info, sir@@LironSegev

Malware writers go after what is used the most and Windows computers are used more than Mac across the globe. So they are more of a target but with the right protection they are not less safe than a Mac (who btw is also getting attacked so they are no longer the untouchables like they used to be)

@@LironSegev Will you be making a video about this?

It's in the list. But I am so not a Mac guy so I have to do a lot of research first

Is that a thing? WOW

Obviously, if you have a PC running an old processor with 4 GB RAM then everything will be slow - not just the anti-virus. Its like me saying: Its great that we can travel 60 MPH down the freeway, and you say: Disagree, some people ride a horse and buggy so it's not true. And yes, Defender is great and it has come a long way from being a memory eater to working much better within the Ram.

If you have an old computer and low ram then of course it will slow down your system. If you have any decent computer with enough ram you won't feel it. It's like me saying it's great we can do 60mph and you say wrong! My horse can't do that😆

true story!

@@LironSegev nvidia has better graphics cards, your thoughts?

so you are saying millions of Dollars in Windows developer code are all wrong and you are right. Ok buddy. Big words are difficult (that means hard)

@@LironSegev Is that what you do? Study big words before the show. I do have to reload OS on USB for removing to soon, often.

Yup Definitely sounds like a you problem.

No one cares..