Over the summer I'm going to have to play on a laptop with only 4gb ram. After I got my PC I never used my laptop, I gave it to my mom and forgot about its shitty fps. Now I have to start fixing some of the problems with it. One of those is Cortana. Before I had Cortana disabled along with my search bar. Now its back and there is no way I know of stopping it. I know its having a huge affect on my computer while running the game because I'm losing 50 fps in game (140 to 90 drop) and it's taking up a lot of my memory.
This is where I need your advice, is there any way to disable Cortana on the new Windows home update? Should I abandon Windows and go to Linux? Will this help my fps?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Over the summer I'm going to have to play on a laptop with only 4gb ram. After I got my PC I never used my laptop, I gave it to my mom and forgot about its shitty fps. Now I have to start fixing some of the problems with it. One of those is Cortana. Before I had Cortana disabled along with my search bar. Now its back and there is no way I know of stopping it. I know its having a huge affect on my computer while running the game because I'm losing 50 fps in game (140 to 90 drop) and it's taking up a lot of my memory.
This is where I need your advice, is there any way to disable Cortana on the new Windows home update? Should I abandon Windows and go to Linux? Will this help my fps?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hope this helps.
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Cortana_(level)/Walkthrough
On a serious note, if you are looking to play esea stick with windows because the client doesnt run on anything but that. And if all else fails just do a reinstall of windows to wipe the settings.
Hope this helps.
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Cortana_(level)/Walkthrough
On a serious note, if you are looking to play esea stick with windows because the client doesnt run on anything but that. And if all else fails just do a reinstall of windows to wipe the settings.
are you sure it's the bar? my frames stayed pretty stable when i upgraded to w10 and i had it enabled
just tell cortana that you want to wank and it'll turn itself off
are you sure it's the bar? my frames stayed pretty stable when i upgraded to w10 and i had it enabled
just tell cortana that you want to wank and it'll turn itself off
I have cortana off, but it still runs in the background. It takes up 30% and I'm pretty sure it's the only thing that has changed significantly.
Also I'm using this laptop to play asiafortress next season since I can't take my PC to Asia with me.
I have cortana off, but it still runs in the background. It takes up 30% and I'm pretty sure it's the only thing that has changed significantly.
Also I'm using this laptop to play asiafortress next season since I can't take my PC to Asia with me.
I don't watch anime myself.
I don't watch anime myself.
did you actually make a thread here before googling
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3109900/software/you-can-remove-cortana-from-windows-10-but-its-tricky.html
there are like nineteen more articles in that vein so i assume one of them is relevant to you
did you actually make a thread here before googling
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3109900/software/you-can-remove-cortana-from-windows-10-but-its-tricky.html
there are like nineteen more articles in that vein so i assume one of them is relevant to you
PC WorldOne final note: After all this is done, it’s possible that you’ll look in the Task Manager and find Cortana still sitting there, mocking you. Travis told me he was able to kill the process. When I tried it myself it was not only difficult, but once I did I wasn’t able to search at all on my PC, for anything. Clearly Cortana is a tough cookie. She only consumes 39MB, so consider whether she’s more trouble to kill than she’s worth.
I've already followed that guide. Cortana still runs in the background so it doesn't fix my problem. The first time I disabled Cortana entirely so that it wouldn't run in the background or let me search for anything in the task bar.
[quote=PC World]One final note: After all this is done, it’s possible that you’ll look in the Task Manager and find Cortana still sitting there, mocking you. Travis told me he was able to kill the process. When I tried it myself it was not only difficult, but once I did I wasn’t able to search at all on my PC, for anything. Clearly Cortana is a tough cookie. She only consumes 39MB, so consider whether she’s more trouble to kill than she’s worth. [/quote]
I've already followed that guide. Cortana still runs in the background so it doesn't fix my problem. The first time I disabled Cortana entirely so that it wouldn't run in the background or let me search for anything in the task bar.
Linux is great and I highly recommend it to those who are willing to sit down and learn it. It has a learning curve to get used to. (Such as command line for package installs and maintenance.) I personally consider it to be far better with its efficiency from day to day use and performance under heavy applications that can benefit from it. Things like being able to update EVERYTHING with a simple alias command, not having pop ups telling you to restart for updates. No waiting 10-30 minutes for your computer to install updates. (Seriously how is Microsoft STILL doing this???) The ability to truly have ownership over your operating system. It does what you tell it to, not the other way around.
However you must keep this in mind. It can't run exe applications. While there are compatibility applications out there like wine it can't all of them. If you play esea your shit outta luck as the client only works under Windows.
Tf2 runs flawlessly under my system.
Add me if you want help switching to it or dual booting.
Linux is great and I highly recommend it to those who are willing to sit down and learn it. It has a learning curve to get used to. (Such as command line for package installs and maintenance.) I personally consider it to be far better with its efficiency from day to day use and performance under heavy applications that can benefit from it. Things like being able to update EVERYTHING with a simple alias command, not having pop ups telling you to restart for updates. No waiting 10-30 minutes for your computer to install updates. (Seriously how is Microsoft STILL doing this???) The ability to truly have ownership over your operating system. It does what you tell it to, not the other way around.
However you must keep this in mind. It can't run exe applications. While there are compatibility applications out there like wine it can't all of them. If you play esea your shit outta luck as the client only works under Windows.
Tf2 runs flawlessly under my system.
Add me if you want help switching to it or dual booting.
Windows 10 creeps me out. The first time my PC booted itself up at night to run an update I thought I had been hacked, and I think there's a lot more data collection going on than other operating systems.
I didn't even want to "upgrade to it" it just kind of happened, basically it was not fully consensual and I feel violated.
Edit: if RAM usage is the issue I'd just find a good deal on better laptop RAM, Windows bullshit cannot be stopped...
Windows 10 creeps me out. The first time my PC booted itself up at night to run an update I thought I had been hacked, and I think there's a lot more data collection going on than other operating systems.
I didn't even want to "upgrade to it" it just kind of happened, basically it was not fully consensual and I feel violated.
Edit: if RAM usage is the issue I'd just find a good deal on better laptop RAM, Windows bullshit cannot be stopped...
BurningSmilesnip
I can +1 this, if you guys remember, i used to make threads left and right asking about windows 10 issues, i eventually got fed up with this and with Mr. smile's help I got my laptop to dual boot windows 10 and ubuntu, now my system works flawlessly, and I can just switch over to windows if i want to do a windows thing (like play the quake champions beta), i'm getting much better fps now on ubuntu, and it's not really that hard to learn, since there are instructions for everything, you could probably get by without even learning what a single command does, so long as you can follow directions
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I can +1 this, if you guys remember, i used to make threads left and right asking about windows 10 issues, i eventually got fed up with this and with Mr. smile's help I got my laptop to dual boot windows 10 and ubuntu, now my system works flawlessly, and I can just switch over to windows if i want to do a windows thing (like play the quake champions beta), i'm getting much better fps now on ubuntu, and it's not really that hard to learn, since there are instructions for everything, you could probably get by without even learning what a single command does, so long as you can follow directions