I’m currently waiting for my UM790 to arrive, and I was thinking if I’m unable to get LMDE to boot, I’m going to experiment with using CTT’s tools to make a stripped down Win10 or 11 install.
My plan for the UM790 is to use it as a media PC for my living room, hosting minecraft and zomboid servers, and also a back up storage for important non-sensitive documents.
Any suggestions besides de-bloating and trimming down the install?
I have hosted game servers on Windows before, and if I was lucky the OS would stay up for about 4 or 5 days. I’m hoping to use LMDE to avoid this issue, but if I can’t, I wanna try to optimize Windows.
Stripping down the OS is best done on Ntlite. The forum there has lots of good information and crew that can help out. My machine is mostly used for media as well as a little bit of gaming and web browsing.
I have it hooked up to a 16 terabyte drive externally. If done correctly your system can run booted up on only 1.2-1.4gigs of ram making it lean and mean. Also would keep thing reliable due to unnecessary things windows does down to a absolute minimum.
If this is all you’re saying i’d be pointing the finger at (possibly) drivers, but more likely hardware. Run memory test for a proper amount of time to test your RAM, etc. Try figure out from the windows system log what the cause for the reboot is (or at least confirm if it was “unexpected”).
My Windows machines go down for Windows updates; outside of that i can count the crashes i have had on one hand since around 2010 and they’ve mostly been hardware related. If you’re seeing regular crashes with windows these days… it most likely isn’t windows. Seriously.
And i have run as little third party software/hacks/debloat as possible. Like… zero debloat. Install windows, install drivers, turn off some toolbars, thats it.
What some people call “Bloat” (included apps) doesn’t impact stability…
100% that. If you have cheap hardware, but it is “generic”, try running generic drivers, or stick to the Windows update supplied drivers. The drivers that come down via Windows update may lack possibly some functionality or be slightly older, but generally if they come from Windows update they’ve been tested to attain some level of stability and reliability before Microsoft will push them.
Cheap shonky drivers written by lowest bidder from trash tier hardware vendor? Not so much. There was a time (windows NT4/2000 days) where i would run servers with standard VGA instead of any vendor driver because standard vga driver was more stable.
Again, if you’re installing from official windows media and seeing crashes… its not because you haven’t de-bloated windows enough… indeed some debloat tools can cause more trouble long term than good.
whoa Nelly, lay down the weapon
have you heard of Windows Server??
depending on the environment
if compliant (you would know),
then don’t plan on it
stand up replicating clusters and be ready
else,
for sure
That happens on desktop environments
Disable sleep and power settings, disable hibernate, add RAM, allocate more RAM and make sure your single thread performance is maxed out (Windows Update is known to lock a single thread to 100%, isn’t til 16+ it splits to 2)
Buyer beware.
All the info posted before is 100% legit hot rod shit
It’s the EXACT same as hot rodding a car
Every change you tweak needs to be maintained.
If you really want go fast, read the above posts. Those guys are building race cars.
If you want to daily drive or host a service, settle for the bolt ons.
Wasn’t expensive to build one with a great community and a bit of time to learn. I have it all set now and maybe the odd adjustment (very minor) between new builds.
A lot faster and better running at 1.2 gigs and all my stuff at 1.4 instead of 2.5 or even 3gigs running.
While you can strip out more things with tools that do that sort of thing, an easy “install and forget it” method with all the basic functionality and working updates would be just to install AtlasOS over Windows.
Sounds like a hardware issue, windows should never crash if you are not overclocking cpu or ram and have matched set dimms and just over all quality components.
People often blame the os when they push hardware too hard or cheap out.
I’m only forced to reboot by the dreaded windows update.