WTF?

I swear either our IT department or Windows or both are conspiring to give us machines that are so goddamn slow you can't actually do any work on them. I sat here this morning waiting for 15 minutes for Photoshop to open a 50Mb TIF image. For whatever reason, Windows decided it needed 6.6Gb of pagefile to do that.
Now every time I touch a file or open explorer, any music that's playing skips and jumps. I can watch windows redrawing almost a line at a time.
I don't know why we put up with stuff like this - I mean you'd think a dual dual-core 4.4Ghz machine with 8Gb of RAM might actually run Windows, but apparently you'd be wrong.

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Mark N. said…
It is not Windows or your computer that are the problem...it is our IT department and the nanny-ware they put on. When you are ready to join the dark-side (Ant, Jesse, Ben, Bob, and myself) you will soon see the full potential of your x64 machine.
07:59
Anonymous said…
You want to try multitasking custom databases and macros on a 900MHZ Celeron system with 368MB RAM. :-( Tight B*******
08:48
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