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[knight1fox3]

Yes seriously.

About to throw the office puter thru the window

You have to defrag it! LOL
What's it doing.....er not doing?

It's an 2010 Dell t5500 thats been a hand-me down fer the past couple of employees (& years). I don't have admin rights, and da IT folks don't know what I'm asking of them; so I spent about an hour trying to update something as a power user (didn't quite work right). Hopefully, I can get a co-worker that has admin rights on da machine to change my user group tomorrow so I can actually update the files I need to do my work.

That and the server is having issues, so getting vetted files / programs is being a pain in da arse.

A defrag is just the start for what this machine needs. I'd like to do a complete wipe and clean install to get rid of all the crap thats been installed, but I know that'll never happen. Heck, it still has office 2k7, so I'm having to relearn it; then have been going home to 2010 & 2013!!! My request to upgrade to 2010 was denied.

Ah the old Precisions. That's actually probably still not a bad PC if it has one of the decent Xeon CPUs and a Quattro vid card. Probably just like you said though, so much garbage from other user accounts that it really needs a cleaning and/or re-image/format. Is that running W7 or Vista? A solid-state drive would also go a long way to improve performance. I was kidding about the defrag. Sounds like it needs much more than that.

How strict is your IT group? Would they care if you made yourself an admin? There are ways to circumvent being a "power user". However, the easiest way would be to have someone with admin rights log on and then change your user account from power to admin. Wait, this isn't XP is it?

 

[engineergurl]

okay, who knows SQL better than me?

 

[blybrook PE]

Ah the old Precisions. That's actually probably still not a bad PC if it has one of the decent Xeon CPUs and a Quattro vid card. Probably just like you said though, so much garbage from other user accounts that it really needs a cleaning and/or re-image/format. Is that running W7 or Vista? A solid-state drive would also go a long way to improve performance. I was kidding about the defrag. Sounds like it needs much more than that.

How strict is your IT group? Would they care if you made yourself an admin? There are ways to circumvent being a "power user". However, the easiest way would be to have someone with admin rights log on and then change your user account from power to admin. Wait, this isn't XP is it?

I actually have the same exact machine for a home desktop (surplus from the old company when we upgraded machines); so I'm familiar with the internals. Both running Win7 pro, 64bit at the office; 32@ home. Dual xeon processors; Nvidia graphics and 250gb drives its a decent machine when properly configured.

Will see if I make any headway today on getting things running.

 

[knight1fox3]

okay, who knows SQL better than me?

Well I certainly wouldn't say "better than"......

I actually have the same exact machine for a home desktop (surplus from the old company when we upgraded machines); so I'm familiar with the internals. Both running Win7 pro, 64bit at the office; 32@ home. Dual xeon processors; Nvidia graphics and 250gb drives its a decent machine when properly configured.

Will see if I make any headway today on getting things running.

Good luck! :thumbs:

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

More change-order reviews, followed by a meeting downtown to discuss them. FML

 

[blybrook PE]

Got the engineers report on the new potential house. Time to see what was found.

 

[Master slacker]

Post Toasties... because I can.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

I could use another post...

 

[Flyer_PE]

Suffering severe lack of motivation today.

 

[snickerd3]

^ me too.

 

[engineergurl]

okay, who knows SQL better than me?

Well I certainly wouldn't say "better than"......

I am getting very irked by the slowness of the progress of this minute portion of the project and approaching the point of "I'll just do it myself" but I am hesitant to trust my own capabilities because there is a BIG difference between dealing with financial databases, spending accounts and thousands of transactions compared to dealing with geographical information, spatial analysis and simple queries. (As in a BIG monetary difference and much more liability).

 

[blybrook PE]

Admin rights. All issues nearly fixed!!!

 

[knight1fox3]

^ me too.

Is it something in the air?

I am getting very irked by the slowness of the progress of this minute portion of the project and approaching the point of "I'll just do it myself" but I am hesitant to trust my own capabilities because there is a BIG difference between dealing with financial databases, spending accounts and thousands of transactions compared to dealing with geographical information, spatial analysis and simple queries. (As in a BIG monetary difference and much more liability).

Correct. Basically it's a "loaded" scenario until you actually know what complexities you are dealing with.

Admin rights. All issues nearly fixed!!!

Boomshakalaka!!! Keep calm and chive on..... :beerchug:

 

[engineergurl]

oy vey...

 

[snickerd3]

^ so that's how that is spelled?

 

[engineergurl]

i'm not sure... that's how I've always spelled it.. then again I spell Yea with out an H because with an H it is pronounced Yeah.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Lead brick in my gut known as a Sonic double bacon cheeseburger...

 

[knight1fox3]

LOL, I vowed never to eat Sonic again after a similar experience.

 

[sycamore PE]

I have never eaten at Sonic.

 

[blybrook PE]

KCCO!!