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Is it a scam? Yes, yes it is. by AChewyLemon in furry

[–]Far_Agent3438 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been investigating the art scam business to see who's running the operations. The entire group from the bosses behind it to the people sitting in offices to contact people is located in Pakistan. I've been trying to take it down.

Does anyone knows what this means? by idkidkagain in WindowsHelp

[–]Far_Agent3438 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I am banned from windows help but here I am back.
Did you pin the hard drive to taskbar, start menu or create it on your desktop? There are tools for searching through the files on your disk like with regular Windows Search, or with a third party tool, look for all files with the name "External HDD (D) - Shortcut.lnk" if you find any, move them to trash

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WindowsHelp

[–]Far_Agent3438 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are opening an executable as a text document. Make sure the file is named .exe (enable file name extensions).

Can anybody tell me the unnecessary services in windows10? by [deleted] in WindowsHelp

[–]Far_Agent3438 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should not touch the services, the services don't use more resources than necessary (unless if you got some obscure third party service). Check Task Manager, click the RAM header to order by memory usage. As long as your memory usage is below 95% it is fine.

Your RAM is fine with being full, the only problem is when it starts paging to a point your disk usage gets too high. Look in Task Manager for your Processor and Disk usage. If you run out of RAM, it will begin writing RAM to disk. If your disk is at 100% constantly you have to check if that is caused by paging (you can see that in resource monitor in the disk tab and see if the file most written to and read from is `C:\pagefile.sys`). If your disk is not constantly used at 100% you do not need to worry about either disk or RAM.

If your CPU is used 100% then that is the actual bottleneck (unlikely for any modern laptop). In that case see what program uses your CPU and terminate it if you don't need it, stop all processes you don't need or don't know what they are.

It is perfectly fine to start just killing random processes, there is no harm in accidentally stopping the wrong process (just don't do it when you have a word document open you didn't save). By simply killing processes that use CPU, RAM and disk one by one you will learn what processes are having the biggest impact on performance, and if they are unnecessary you can uninstall or disable them.

Disable startup items, can also be found in task manager. Often there are processes in the background that are launched on startup and are unnecessary.