{"id":129915,"date":"2016-02-27T23:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T06:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/27\/maybe-i-should-get-back-into-tech-support.html"},"modified":"2016-02-27T23:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T06:21:25","slug":"maybe-i-should-get-back-into-tech-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/27\/maybe-i-should-get-back-into-tech-support.html","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I should get back into tech support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#39;s task was setting up a new PC for the In-Law-&#39;Rents. Their desktop unit was a 2008 Windows Vista machine, an old Compaq, that has been gobsmackingly slow for way, way too long. And, in fact, it was slow enough that it took me about 6 hours to backup up 64Gb of data to a thumb drive.<\/p>\n<p>The new machine is a low-end (but expandable) Dell unit, with Win10, and a Tb hard drive, and loading data from the same thumb drives was running at 4x the sped.<\/p>\n<p>Need to finish the job tomorrow, but at the moment it&#39;s a small validation of my 1337 PC Upgrade Skillz, which is kind of nice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6256223244807368961\/6256223243120700978'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-a4LF5fTXOVo\/VtKR5InAbjI\/AAAAAAADtvk\/1jenJNMfevw\/IMG_20160227_161003865.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/EuQ1EDRbwGx'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#39;s task was setting up a new PC for the In-Law-&#39;Rents. Their desktop unit was a 2008 Windows Vista machine, an old Compaq, that has been gobsmackingly slow for way, way too long. And, in fact, it was slow enough that it took me about 6 hours to backup up 64Gb of data to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/27\/maybe-i-should-get-back-into-tech-support.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maybe I should get back into tech support&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160227_161003865.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15544,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/09\/new-pc-for-margie-part-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":129915,"position":0},"title":"New PC for Margie, Part 2","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Aug-09 4:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So, yeah, we did in fact end up getting a new PC for Margie this weekend. 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