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So what's your setup ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I've got a fairly simple machine
i5-8400, 32GB DDR4, 1TB SSD X 2. using integrated graphics (don't play games that need more)
and a backup machine identical except it's got 64GB RAM.
the VMs (VirtualBox) boots and runs win as fast as when I ran it direct on the machine (did some basic timing before trashing the windows partitions) 2 VM's side by side (including running virtual studio, compiling, debugging etc on both at the same time) and even then I only give the VM's 2 CPU cores each.
... above tells me windows clearly not taking full advantage of the machine if it boots/runs as fast virtualized with only 2 of 6 cores available.
...and hence I say windows is a waste of new gen hardware. Yeah it's a little bit faster, but no where near as much as it should be.
(not counting benchmarks which are purposely optimized for hardware often bypassing windows calls) yeah OK windows was never designed with multi core (or true multi user) in mind, like any new features it was just bolted onto the Win2K core - and that hack it seems still remains in win10.
Summary: if you're running windows native on new hardware you're big-time missing out on what that hardware is capable of.
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the goat in your machine wrote: windows was never designed with multi core (or true multi user) in mind, like any new features it was just bolted onto the Win2K core
I think you need to dig further back into history. Win2K didn't evolve from 95/98/ME as many people believe (I'd otherwise agree with your claims). The NT line originally could run on x86, IA-32, MIPS and Alpha systems, and was designed to support multiple CPUs and cores (and users) from the get-go.
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Ok thanks for the info - I have an old HP laptop that could handle that - will give it a go
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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glad I gave a Linux fanbois a tingle 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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If you can boot into recovery mode you should be able to go back to the last system restore point. It worked when I had a blue screen boot up issue.
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Unfortunately, that "if" was a "no."
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: I have not backed up the beast with AOMEI for over six weeks. Even though I'm all clouded-up, the thought of another day of installing and installing, and making sure apps are registered, etc., fills me with deep existential dread.
I'll refer you to HEndrik's rules of computing:
1) Make a backup
2) Make *ANOTHER* backup
3) *CHECK* those backups
They are actually in *reverse* order of importance 
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Some of this dates from the days of Win16, but it still brings tears to my eyes when I revisit it. And I haven't even done enough network programming to appreciate the entire list.
The Windows Sockets Lame List
Much of it isn't Windows-specific.
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Ages ago, it was normal to expect the accessability-functions to work correctly in WinForms.
We had machines that sold train-tickets with braille on the buttons, tiles in the pavement that you could feel with your feet to lead you in the right direction. Then they got replaced by a touch-screen.
Cheaper, yes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Thought #2 - Eddy, looks like an opportunity for a braille touchscreen
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You and I both know that somebody would find a way to have sex with it ... and no one would touch them again. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I guess you have heard of the guy who was so visually handicapped that he recognized girls by the Braille method.
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Sometimes it just sucks to be blind. I'm not intentionally being harsh, but I am saying Mr. Robles is fos. Anyone want to challenge me on some lawyer thinking they can market this? Sheer and total nonsense. Why do I say this?
What prevents Mr. Robles just calling the elephanting store?
Me? If I ran a business and I had to do this? No website.
Charlie Gilley
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: What prevents Mr. Robles just calling the elephanting store?
Reading the phone number prolly. If he had simply bought a Google Assistant or an Alexa, it wouldn't happen.
OTOH, tis as simple as providing an alt-text to pictures 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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or as simple as using the reader view and a text-to-speech converter. Possibly.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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..which reads you the alt-text to pictures. Ever tried them?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Ehr.. no.
A text-to-speech converter can't explain what an image represents without the alt-text. It's really that simple, sorry.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It can't explain, but if the "image" really is a scanned text, it can do OCR on it and present it on a Braille line.
OCR tends to be far from perfect, and will do a lot of mistakes (although by use of a dictionary, it will often guess the right interpretatio of a fuzzy image), but you'd be surprised how tolerant visually handicapped people are to errors, and how easily they learn which are the "common" mistakes, using their "mental dictionary" to deterine the actual word. The text must be really garbled before they give up (and probably the OCR gives up a lot earlier...).
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Rick York wrote: Rick York has posted a reply to your message at "The Lounge":
that right there is the crux of the issue and I think it IS exactly that simple.
The question is should it be mandated that websites supply text for the images so that a text reader will make it fully functional? I am sure what my opinion on that is right now. I am leaning toward no, it should be a business decision of whether you want to support that level of functionality. That's just my leaning though as I am not fully convinced.
If you can't or dare not to reply on the board; I'll just post it here
Any html-course explains how the alt-tag is important. It is not a very complicated addition. Of course you should be free to ignore it, as I should be free to point out the only difference is lazyness 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Had I wanted this posted I would have done so myself. I thought that would be pretty damned simple to figure out. Apparently I was mistaken.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Very
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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With all due respect, which is absolutely none to speak of, go f*** yourself a**hole.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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