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Tips for being the family holiday sysadmin

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Re: Tips for being the family holiday sysadmin

#31

> Many of the common complaints, such as "my computer is slow," have known solutions: registry cleaners for Windows Registry cleaners are rarely, if ever, the solution for a slow PC.

Is it because they're not a Windows company that they would suggest this? If anything registry cleaners are more likely to bork your PC.

Yeah, in my experience they are more likely Registry Hive destroyers. The Registry is intended to be read-heavy, and by vastly increasing the number of writes/deletions by regularly running a "Registry Cleaner" seems mostly to be a great way to corrupt Hive files.

Re: Tips for being the family holiday sysadmin

#32

6) Upgrade their Windows 7 before it comes back to you once its EOL in January 2020

Upgrading Windows7 to Windows 10 usually needs a hardware upgrade. And installing windows and office and decrappifying it takes ages.

Rather replace with your favourite Linux, no hardware upgrade necessary, LibreOffice is included, Spyware, Phone-Home-Functions and other crap missing by default. Saves lots of time.

Re: Tips for being the family holiday sysadmin

#33

> Many of the common complaints, such as "my computer is slow," have known solutions: registry cleaners for Windows Registry cleaners are rarely, if ever, the solution for a slow PC.

I was surprised that this was included in the post. More often than not, it has broken installs for my relatives (which in turn I had to fix over the holiday).

Re: Tips for being the family holiday sysadmin

#36

For those who don't mind being a hero. And getting an extra slice of pie https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-which-i-fix-my-girlfr...

The animated adaptation [0] of this story is even better!

[0]: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/the-ballad-of-a-wi-fi-hero

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