They wanted me to install UPS World Ship on another PC. I came in early to get it done before anyone needed to use the PC. It took 10min to get the remote desktop to connect. When it finally did I found out why.
How much unused stuff have you seen open all at the same time?
I’ve got 24 in the the pic above without counting the 2 UPS windows I was working in.
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rockn
(Rockn)
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It should be a dedicated desktop, not one the user monkeys can play with at will. That looks almost as bad as my malware screenshot.
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rockn
(Rockn)
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It should be a dedicated desktop, not one the user monkeys can play with at will. That looks almost as bad as my malware screenshot.
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Seems like the perfect time to move them off the local installed worldship and use the web based portal.
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Wow. I wonder how many tabs are open in Chrome on that one. Could be one or thirty.
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With the CPU at only 30% and the memory at 64%, I would be looking at the network (connected through wireless) before blaming anything else.
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I think so but no guarantee.
That would be good but getting everyone to say yes would be a fight that I just dont have the time or brain cells to dedicate too. Someday management will ask for a more efficient setup and I will give it to them, until that day I wont win the fight.
I was thinking the same thing but with a simple restart everything started working way faster again, so Im sticking with my theory that it was the fact that they just opened all the things.
“But but I need all these open so I can do my job. This PC is preventing me from having good job performance.”
No, Karen, you don’t need 30 different excel spreadsheets, word docs, and pdfs open. (Not to mention the decorative desk item blocking the air intake.)
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brianinca
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I get drafters complaining about Acrobat outputting drawings with boxes substituting for letters. I ask them how many PDF’s they have open at the time they printed. I remind them to close the danged PDF’s once in awhile.
This has turned into a 6 month reminder process. It ages out of departmental memory.
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At least they had documents open. My people will launch Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Reader, Chrome…and no documents or web pages open in anything. Just idle processes sitting out there running because they think thats quicker than launching Excel when they actually need to use it. Is it BEER:30 yet??
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That looks like fun, it is like when chrome opens a new process for every window opened and you end up sucking up all your memory…users complain the computer is slow.
At a previous job, one lady complained all the time about her PC being slow. No matter how many time you would tell her to close some of the open windows she would nnot listen because she needed that spreadsheet or email open for reference throughout the day. One time I counted 20+ spreadsheets and 30+ emails all open at once.
This has been my line with this issue for the past 2 weeks.
Me - “So, computers have a finite amount of resources it can use to perform tasks like any other piece of equipment. You have about 30 windows open between Adobe, Excel, Outlook, and your web browser… This is causing the memory error on the computer.”
User - “But I need them all open to do my job.”
Me - “You need 12 Excel sheets to do the task you are working on this moment?”
User - “No, but I will go back to them.”
Me - “Well I guess it is a pick your poison situation. You can definitely keep all the screens open, but your computer may lag a little bit… Or you can close the windows you aren’t using and won’t need for the next hour, and reopen them when needed.”
User - (Sigh) “OK, thanks”
Sometimes, tough love is the only love.
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We recently installed UPS Worldship for a department in my office. They got a dedicated machine that they use for nothing else. Lock it down!
