‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CIO Responds

Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by StillBored on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:36AM (#30115899)

Not, specifically but the article mentions at the end that the original laptops used for the win10 transition were using HD's (aka spinning rust) rather than SSDs because it was a lowest bidder situation.

Given what I've seen of corp/gov IT, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the "security software" (aka virus scanners, intrusion detection, etc) then proceeds to hammer the disk/CPU sufficiently that the machine cannot make forward progress. My wife's work machine (a fairly nice, if slim dell) sits there with one of its 4 cores at 100% running a McAfee process hammering the disk doing some kind of scan pretty much 100% of the time. The result is that it pushes that core to max turbo, overheats the system and then throttles the whole thing to ~800Mhz. It then takes a minute or two to open word/etc. And that is with a fairly fast SSD, add in the spinning rust, and i'm sure it would take much longer.

And of course its locked down sufficiently that its not possible to even try and fix it.

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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by agentdrtran on Friday January 28, 2022 @11:21AM (#30116676)

The article mentions they use TWO different, heavy endpoint solutions. I'm shocked the computers work at all.

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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by Moru on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:41PM (#30118663)

Haha, I just (as in 20 min ago) helpled a friend get their computer to work and they had 3 antiviruses running. It's a pretty common problem actually, helped a few people with it the last 20 years.

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Re:‘Fix My Computer’ Cry Echos on Social Media; Air Force CI... by muttled on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:59AM (#30116297)

I've ran into issues on Lenovo computers where there's a shared power allocation for turbo boost and the GPU. Disabling turbo boost fixes issues where there's not enough power for the GPU and also helps keep the computer from going through a turbo boost/heat up/thermal throttling/turbo boost cycle.

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